Good Fortune Quotes - Page 14

• The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

  Bryan Cranston

  Opportunity, Want, Fortune

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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• Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.

  E. O. Wilson

  Discovery, Intellectual, Firsts

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• O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

  John Donne

  Fall, Power, Men

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

  Don Sutton

  Good Luck, Effort, Best Of Luck

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• In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

  Cyrus the Great

  Kindness, Adversity, Men

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• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  Karen Kain

  School, People, Generosity

  "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

  Andrew Harvey

  Yoga, Heart, Genius

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• Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.

  Josei Toda

  Destiny, Daily Activities, Enlightenment

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• The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

  Chris Prentiss

  Successful, Path, Great Success

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “The Little Book of Secrets: Gentle Wisdom for Joyful Living”, p.81, BookBaby

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• I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

  Leonard Maltin

  Teamwork, Memories, Interviews

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• True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.

  Eric Liu

  Country, Believe, Self

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.20, Sasquatch Books

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• Hidden in all good fortune is misfortune. And in all misfortune is good fortune. It's never going to stay the same as long you are in the world or unless you die while you are alive and become an enlightened Zen Master. But those people don't exist. When you study their lives, you find that they had the same struggles as the rest of us. It's not so much about being able to always have calm. Calmness isn't just the absence of noise or troubles. It's being able to find calm within yourself when other stuff is going on.

  Wayne Dyer

  Struggle, Long, People

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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• I hope that's what I've taught my girls - to be fair, to recognize their own position and their own good fortune, to use their voices to make things better. Beyond that, I'd tell them just to be kind.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Girl, Voice, Be Kind

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

  Anatole France

  Often Is, Literature, Innocence

  "The Gods Are Thirsty". Book by Anatole France, 1912.

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• We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Believe, Long, Fortune

  Alexandre Dumas (1997). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Passion, Garden

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.4, Applewood Books

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• People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pain, Mind, Done

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.743, Library of America

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• When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who has learned to rejoice in the good fortune of others experiences only happiness. Seeing another person's beautiful house or attractive partner immediately makes him happy - the fact that they are not his own is irrelevant.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Beautiful, Jealous, Heart

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• To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Attitude, Envy

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• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Children, Book

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

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• I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character, Men, Action

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.65, Modern Library

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• Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Heart, Heaven

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

  Betty White

  Golden Retrievers, Never Quit, Affair

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• An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

  Bodhidharma

  Meditation, Fortune, Dharma

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