Good Fortune Quotes

• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Relationship, Thank You, Giving

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• Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

  Evan Esar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Evan Esar (1961). “Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar”

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

  Walt Whitman

  Karma, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.226, NYU Press

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• It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Fool, Merit

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• 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 Maslow

  Beautiful, Fate, Wonderful

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• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Faith

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Success, Mother

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• Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pieces, Improvement, Daily Life

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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Men, Gambling

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• Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

  Francis Quarles

  Wisdom, Cards, Literature

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• 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

  Positive Thinking, Positivity, Choices

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• Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

  Dick Gephardt

  Moral, Share, Fortune

  Twitter post from Nov 01, 2016

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• To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thankful

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• A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wise, Business, Men

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• Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Fortune

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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Fate

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• Happiness consists more in small conveniences or 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

  Life, Happiness, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks”, p.280

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• Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

  Rachel Field

  Happiness, Oasis, Desert

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

  Marcus Aurelius

  Adversity, Bitterness, Bears

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• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Time, Heart, Fire

  "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire". Address delivered for Memorial Day at Keene, New Hampshire, before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic, people.virginia.edu. May 30, 1884.

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• All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

  Anita Brookner

  God, Winning, Favors

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• The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

  Saadi

  Heaven, Earth, Faces

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

  Jane Austen

  Daughter, Men, Views

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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