Good Fortune Quotes - Page 3

• If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

  James McAvoy

  Jobs, Fun, Forever

  "James McAvoy: I've done X Men... now for a few Zs". Interview with Rick Fulton, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. March 23, 2011.

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• the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

  Jane Austen

  Son, Years, Hopeless

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.182, BookCaps Study Guides

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• As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Country, Party, Israel

  "Standing against a tide of hatred" by Elizabeth Wurtzel, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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• I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

  Paul Newman

  Christian, Children, Thinking

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• I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

  Ted Turner

  Sports, People, News

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• After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Greatest Fear, People

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished'". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2010.

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• It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

  Simon Sinek

  Opposites, People, Curiosity

  "Remember Why You Started: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

  Olivia Munn

  Live Life, Actresses, Fortune

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• When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Years, Fortune, Producers

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• Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty
  And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive
  And make of the spirit your first place of account
  To the beloved, whose lights shine as from gold
  All of them worship out of fear of the fire �
  And consider deliverance abundant good fortune -
  Or, so they may dwell in the gardens, and reach
  To the meadows of paradise, and there drink from its rivers
  Of gardens or fire I have no opinion
  I seek no exchange for my dearest love

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Sleep

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• Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

  Patrick Duffy

  Fall, Good Luck, Hard Work

  "Patrick Duffy Is the Girl Next Door's Dad". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. February 3, 2006.

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• The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Owing, Calm

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• I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Lucky, Actors, Juilliard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Opportunity, Cost

  1971 Economics, Peace, and Laughter.

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• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disappointment, Ambition, Sour

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.15

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• Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Struggle, Men, Parent

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

  Merle Shain

  Good Luck, Past, Years

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• 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

  Pain, Memories, Men

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• [Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Juicy, Mouths

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• I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Fortune

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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• A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

  Ari Kiev

  Fate, Successful, Doe

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• To not follow the dharma, either intentionally or through lack of awareness, creates a very low level of attention. In this low level of attention we make all kinds of mistakes and we are unhappy no matter what good fortune befalls us.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mistake, Buddhism, Unhappy

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• I got sick and tired of a joyless existence, and so have thought a lot in the past few years about how to bring more joy into my life. The more I think about it, the more I believe that joy and gratitude are inseparable. Joy is defined in the dictionary as an "emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires," while gratitude is that "state of being appreciative of benefits received." In other words, whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Believe, Tired

  M. J. Ryan (2017). “Attitudes of Gratitude: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life”, p.14, Conari Press

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• Bear good fortune modestly.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Bears, Fortune

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• Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

  Jim Fixx

  Clever, Luck, Matter

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