Good Fortune Quotes - Page 11

• You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

  David Pleat

  Football, Biscuits, Sometimes

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• The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.

  Charles C. Mann

  Believe, Flukes, Ends

  Charles C. Mann (2011). “1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created”, p.256, Vintage

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• I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set up to assist the fledgling labour movement. It was not a company, nor a statutory board, nor a government department - in fact it did not exist at all as a legal entity. Thus in slightly unorthodox circumstances I became part of that struggle.

  S. R. Nathan

  Struggle, Government, Labour Movement

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• Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

  Demosthenes

  Blessing, Next, Fortune

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• Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires us to suffer all good fortune that befalls everyone we know! What a bright prospect that is-downing another quart of pickle juice every time anyone around you has a happy moment!

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Mistake, Giving, Envy

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• Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

  Richard Wagner

  Blessed, Mean, Luck

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• What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, May, Way

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• I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Guy, Gals, Fortune

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• I met eight great members. I really don't think that anyone else could get along like how our nine girls get along so well. Because we're girls, there can be a lot of jealousy going on. Thinking back on it now, I think I'm a kid who received a lot of good fortune.

  Kim Hyo-yeon

  Girl, Kids, Thinking

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• Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Doe, Blind, Fortune

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• At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations.

  Amar Bose

  Years, Discipline, Expectations

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• To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Men, Fortune

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• Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

  Saadi

  Opportunity, Association, Decline

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• A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Procrastination, Rocks, Sea

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• ... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

  Bernard Malamud

  Believe, Clouds, Sky

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.

  Lee Iacocca

  Children, Kids, Focus

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• Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.

  Jerry Goldsmith

  Wise, Sick, Alex

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• I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from Doctrine... but that she expects to impose these commandments upon me who do not have the good fortune of being a believer, trying to pour them into civil law in a way that they become obligatory even to us non-believers, is it right? To me it doesn't seem so.

  Indro Montanelli

  Law, Faithful, Church

  "Non vince la scienza" by Umberto Veronesi, www.repubblica.it. November 14, 2008.

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• Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life.

  Joseph Murphy

  Believe, Blessing, Divine Guidance

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2009). “Putting the Power of Your Subconscious Mind to Work: Reach New Levels of Career Success Using the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.6, Penguin

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• ...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Want, Fortune

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• We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  People, Merit, Reputation

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• I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

  Joanna Garcia

  Mistake, Share, Fortune

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

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• Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day.
  [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag,
  Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Men, Pieces

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