“I've had the great fortune to work with many great directors [and] great actors, and I just want to thank them.”
Anthony Hopkins
“You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me.”
Donald Sutherland
“Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.”
Lord Beaverbrook
“Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.”
Benjamin Franklin
“One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune”
Swedish Proverb
“Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”
Mark Twain