Good Fortune Quotes - Page 6

• The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  World, Fortune

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• Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

  Plato

  Sea, Wish, May

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• As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...

  Scarlett Johansson

  Eye, Different, Spotlight

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Obviously this stuff takes a bit of planning, but I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.

  Eric Bana

  Disappointment, Years, Giving

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 29, 2009.

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• To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

  William Boyd

  Hard Work, Artist, Way

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• One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

  Andre Dubus

  Dad, Father, Writing

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• Good fortune has side effects.

  Martha Beck

  Luck, Sides, Fortune

  "10 Life Lessons You Should Unlearn" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2013.

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• Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

  Francis Bacon

  Fate, Men, Fortune

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• When we shot "Cry Freedom," I wasn't even allowed in South Africa. They told me I could come but I wasn't going to leave. I had heavy death threats at that time. So we shot in Zimbabwe. In 1995, I had the privilege and the honor to meet Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela the same day: I had breakfast with Desmond Tutu and lunch with Nelson Mandela. Then I had the good fortune to have Mr. Mandela actually come to my house in California. There's been a tremendous amount of change.

  Denzel Washington

  Lunch, California, Zimbabwe

  "Safe House: A Conversation With Denzel Washington". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. February 04, 2012.

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• I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

  Rob Paulsen

  Running, People, Actors

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

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• No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Mother, Nature, Children

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• When you don't have crazy ambitions, you're always happy just kind of getting by. Our expectations were always kept low. And so I feel like we appreciate it all the more to have all this good fortune come our way, which we hadn't really been planning.

  Ty Burrell

  Crazy, Ambition, Appreciate

  Source: deadline.com

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• The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

  Max Stirner

  People, Fortune, Misfortunes

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• Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.

  Zhuangzi

  Light, Earth, Way

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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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• We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Long, Empowering

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• It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Struggle, Eye

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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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• It's really the creature of my own making from top to bottom. I appreciate that. And the good fortune, the perseverance, having the stamina to stick around longer than everyone else even after people write you off - that's always been a good motivating force in my life.

  Ariel Pink

  Perseverance, Writing, People

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.

  Michael Collins

  Appreciate, Earth, Tiny

  Michael Collins, Charles A. Lindbergh (2001). “Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey”, p.471, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Share, Fortune, Misfortunes

  Bertolt Brecht (1975). “Grove Press modern drama: six plays”, Grove Press

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

  David Pleat

  Football, Biscuits, Sometimes

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• I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

  Andrew Levitas

  Majority, World, Able

  "Andrew Levitas’ End of Life Lullaby". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Four, Boards, Earth

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