Top 100 Quotes About Good Fortune
#1. From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.
Ernest Lawrence
#2. Finally, in every event which leads you to sorrow, remember to use this principle: that this is not a misfortune, but that to bear it like a brave man is good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
#3. If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
Orison Swett Marden
#4. They say that eclipses are portents of disaster, because disasters are so common, and misfortune occurs often enough for these forecasts to be right, whereas if they said that eclipses were portents of good fortune they would often be wrong.
Blaise Pascal
#5. We have all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility (20).
Denzel Washington
#6. Benjamin Franklin said it best: "Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom." Now,
Meik Wiking
#7. Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.
Maynard Owen Williams
#8. see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.
Colson Whitehead
#9. The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.
Ralph Marston
#10. My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.
Elyn R. Saks
#11. And I would sit there, smiling stupidly and realizing they had no idea how rare and lucky they were, and realizing further that this ignorance of their great good fortune could well be the whole trick of achieving it in the first place.
Ron Currie Jr.
#12. In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
Karen Kain
#13. For a single man with a good fortune must be in want of a wife
Jane Austen
#14. Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
Livy
#15. I don't trust good fortune that comes so easily. There is always a price to be paid, Frannie. Always." He gave her a cocky grin. "I want to know the price before I have to pay it.
Lorraine Heath
#16. Daughter-in-law is just a word. Call her anything you like. The hand of good fortune is not fussy about words.
Rohinton Mistry
#17. Sometimes, even in the most unfortunate of lives, there will occur a moment or two of good fortune.
Lemony Snicket
#18. Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
Marilyn French
#20. Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him.
Tom Brokaw
#22. Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#23. Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent years fretting about whether I'd ever meet anyone to have a baby with.
Mariella Frostrup
#24. How much good fortune had been strewn her way, starting with a man who still put up with her crankiness and irrationalities, who stayed loyal and devoted to her, as if she were the flag of his country.
Thrity Umrigar
#25. Being the leader means you hold the highest rank, either by earning it, good fortune or navigating internal politics. Leading, however, means that others willingly follow you - not because they have to, not because they are paid to, but because they want to.
Simon Sinek
#26. Overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time ... There now began the greatest and most unforgettable time of my earthly existence.
Adolf Hitler
#27. I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.
Christian De Duve
#28. Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin Franklin
#29. Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.
Pierre Corneille
#30. Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I've found, however, is work.
Shane Snow
#32. Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
Evan Esar
#33. You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.
Arthur Ransome
#34. The one thing our species is helpless against is good fortune. It first puzzles, then frightens, then angers, and finally destroys us.
John Steinbeck
#35. It was as if there were always some good fortune with me that would keep me from going hungry. I knew I would never die of hunger.
Micaela Flores Amaya
#37. Authentic joy is not a euphoric state or a feeling of being high. Rather, it is a state of appreciation that allows us to participate full in our lives. We train in the rejoicing in the good fortune of self and others.
Pema Chodron
#38. I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.
James Rebhorn
#40. With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.
Robert Vaughn
#41. But if you're foolish enough to want me then I will not question my good fortune.
Cassandra Clare
#42. Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#43. If there is a good fortune on one side, there can be no occasion for any on the other. No matter which has it, so that there is enough. I hate the idea of one great fortune looking out for another. And to marry for money I think the wickedest thing in existence.
Jane Austen
#44. When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.
Deepak Chopra
#45. Conventional wisdom may not be wise.
Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.
Freedom of choice is predetermined.
Don't believe anything you read!
L. Anthony
#46. Man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known
Jane Austen
#47. He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
Jim Davis
#48. I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
Michael Pollan
#49. I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.
But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
Marcus Aurelius
#50. If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?
Meghan Daum
#51. The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.
Guy Johnson
#52. Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Ben Jonson
#53. I cry long rivers of regret, but with every new breath, I am secretly thankful for my good fortune.
J.A. Huss
#54. For those cities that were great in earlier times must have now become small, and those that were great in my time were small in the time before. ... Man's good fortune never abides in the same place.
Michael Ondaatje
#55. We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.
Tom Golisano
#56. It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
Martin Lewis Perl
#57. I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
Orlando Bloom
#58. There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
#60. No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.
Charles Francis Richter
#62. Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.
Sheri S. Tepper
#63. A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.
Alan Furst
#64. Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of this statement. So far, I have not had the good fortune to come across it.
Bertrand Russell
#65. In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ...
William Makepeace Thackeray
#66. I became a diligent condom carrier and when most subsequent lovers had the good fortune to lie under my grunting, sweaty mass, they were always the grimacing recipient of an eager and rubber-sheathed penis boner.
Rob Delaney
#67. Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability ... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Thomas A. Edison
#68. Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.
Josei Toda
#69. On that trip it was my good fortune to be wrong; being mistaken is the essence of the traveler's tale.
Paul Theroux
#70. What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.
Adolf Hitler
#71. The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.
Lauren Willig
#72. I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.
Ty Olsson
#73. I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and they've just been not - they weren't better.
Sandra Bullock
#74. Anyone who has had the good fortune of spending time with the infinite silence of the trees, will acknowledge their wisdom.
Loretta Lost
#75. It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.
Steven Sinofsky
#76. Bean Throwing Day (Japan): Usually February 3 or q,. A day to toss away your bad luck and welcome good fortune. Try making a bean salad, then plant at least one of the beans in the earth near your home for providence all year.
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Patricia J. Telesco
#77. I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable
the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to bring them together and enjoy them together in full quantity.
Peter Greenaway
#78. I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends.
Josh Helman
#79. In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
Tom Brokaw
#80. That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream. In which no doubt you will see our good fortune and our hope. For imagining war he has let loose war,
J.R.R. Tolkien
#81. Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.
Joel Osteen
#82. Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.
Twyla Tharp
#83. Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.
Sophocles
#84. I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.
Joyce Brothers
#85. What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.
Sathya Sai Baba
#86. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
Alice Hoffman
#87. Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.
Stephen King
#88. I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.
Ethel Smyth
#89. I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
Neil Strauss
#90. When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.
Jonathan Ames
#91. Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
Abraham H. Maslow
#92. I'd always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around.
Marian Keyes
#93. Sometimes good fortune is just having fewer messed-up things happening to you.
Colson Whitehead
#94. Torin had never been a great believer in luck, preferring to trust in training, preparation, and strong artillery support, but it was impossible to deny the good fortune that had caused them to crash precisely where they had.
Tanya Huff
#98. She liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of a husband.
Jennifer Ashley
#99. In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage. For in the very nature of things, success tends to create pride and blindness in the hearts of men, while suffering teaches them to be patient and strong.
Xenophon
#100. There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
Ann Patchett
