Fortunate Events Quotes

Miracles happen every day - I'm one!

Chance favors those who are prepared.

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.

I have led an exceptional life in some ways, yes. I mean, I've been very lucky. I seem to have had a gift for landing in the right place at the right time.

Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.

I always say, 'If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.' I couldn't be happier with where I ended up and how it worked out.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

Seriously, I am not a person that I think much about what happened or what didn't happen or what could happen. I happy about the things that happened to me. I'm a lucky person, for sure, for all the things that happened to me during my life.

I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he might have believed it to be the work of Providence but it seemed to him now that to thank God for his life would be to suggest God had shrugged off all the others flicked them away like cigarette butts by the thousands and that seemed like abominable conceit. James Dorsey took no credit for being alive. His higher power these days was Chance.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare's finest characters, but, hey, that's the way it has happened.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.