Good Fortune Quotes - Page 11

• Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

  Pierre Corneille

  Glory, Renounce, Fortune

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• Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Envy, Needs

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• When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

  Deepak Chopra

  Joy, And Love, Ease

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• When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

  Michael Apted

  Hot, Want, Cry

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

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• So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get your sleep and a little bit of food; and work as much as you can. There's so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors, and you'll find a way to do what you love.

  David Lynch

  Jobs, Work, Sleep

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  Barry Pepper

  Fun, Mind, Would Be

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• I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Poverty, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 15, 2013

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• Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none.

  Hugh Hefner

  Power, Wake Up, Realizing

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• ...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

  Izzeldin Abuelaish

  Hate, May, Fortune

  Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011). “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity”, p.42, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

  Raymond Queneau

  Men, Religion, Disappear

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• You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering-no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Selfish, Thinking, People

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• It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head.

  Tony Judt

  Fall, Men, Healthy

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• There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

  Marie Dressler

  Success, Differences, Envy

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• 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 Saks

  Lying, Mental Illness, Fortune

  Elyn R. Saks (2007). “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness”, p.425, Hachette UK

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• Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in ONE, his body and limbs are but as dust of the earth, and life and death, beginning, and end, are but as night and day, and cannot destroy his peace. How much less such trifles as gain or loss, misfortune or good fortune?

  Zhuangzi

  Loss, Night, Men

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• I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

  Jessica Lynch

  War, Home, Opportunity

  Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007

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• I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

  John Denver

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

  Aristotle

  Citizens, States, Fortune

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.144, Aristotle

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• Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.

  Jose Saramago

  Goodbye, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

  Earl Nightingale

  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Luck

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• Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Opportunity, Luck

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• There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

  Dante Hall

  Football, College, Nfl

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• If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

  Richard Askey

  Nice, Reason Why, Mathematics

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• CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Two, Kind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.31, University of Georgia Press

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• These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Gratitude, Military, Light

  NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”

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