Fortunate Quotes - Page 33

• Ive been fortunate to be short my entire life. Theres only one position Ive ever had to play, and thats point guard. So Ive always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

  Chris Paul

  Jobs, Play, Leader

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• As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

  James E. Faust

  Jobs, Home, Men

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• Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.

  Ronaldinho

  Football, Player, Love Is

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• I have always considered myself to be very fortunate. To play for the biggest club in the world, which also happens to be the team I supported as a boy, means I have never had to consider changing away from Manchester United.

  Ryan Giggs

  Team, Mean, Boys

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• It all depends on how you want to define what an MVP is. I've been fortunate to win the trophy four times, but I've been the MVP of my team for a long time - just because of the way I lead and the way I approach us being professionals off the floor.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Careers, Chance, Film

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

  Paul McCartney

  Forever, Touching, Goes On

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• To take pressure off myself, I realize how fortunate I am to be playing a sport for a living. If I take that mentality onto the court, there shouldn't be any pressure because I'm already fortunate to do what I do.

  John Isner

  Sports, Pressure, Realizing

  Source: espn.go.com

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• The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1959). “The works of George Herbert”

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• You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

  Dominick Dunne

  Powerful, Writing, Rich

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• I am fortunate to have access to an array support and services, and I certainly could not do my job without them. But sadly, not everyone has access to the same resources.

  James Langevin

  Jobs, Support, Resources

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• Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Events, May, Showers

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• The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Ocean, Heart, Wave Of Life

  "Love and God". Book by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1969.

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• I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.

  Mark Teixeira

  Sports, New York, Cake

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• I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Nba, Helping, Chance

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• I am fortunate to have been well paid for an almost pathological honesty.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Honesty, Wells, Has Beens

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• American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

  Bryan Burrough

  Support, Lucky, Fields

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• I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.

  James Nesbitt

  Never Forget, Forget

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I'm going through a hard part of my life, I just think about the fact I am living a dream. Alot of people aren't as fortunate to have their hobby-the thing they love to do most-as their job. I just think about that and I feel better.

  Mats Sundin

  Dream, Jobs, Feel Better

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• I've been very, very fortunate. I never had to work for a living.

  Joe Torre

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• I feel very fortunate to have broken in with the Milwaukee Braves organization.

  Joe Torre

  Organization, Broken, Brave

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• I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. Im thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Country, Latin, Thinking

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• Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue.

  Maria Popova

  Journey, Love Is, Leaving

  "When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships". www.brainpickings.org. April 6, 2015.

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• I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

  Charles Dickens

  Determination, Men, Order

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.356

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• When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.

  Dylan Lauren

  Fashion, Art, Pioneers

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