Good Fortune Quotes - Page 7

• May good fortune be your constant companion.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  May, Fortune, Companion

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• Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

  Yehuda Berg

  Prayer, Rain, Blessing

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• I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which tells them exactly how, when, and where the work must be done, and so brings good fortune to the home forever.

  Jan Morris

  Home, House, Forever

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• I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation.

  Sarah Palin

  Love, Believe, Men

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• An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry ... one of them was Dr. Bernstein. I had the good fortune to play him in the first round., and beat him in such fashion as to obtain the Rothschild prize for the most brilliant game ... a profound feeling of respect for my ability remained throughout the rest of the contest.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Fashion, Games, Play

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• In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

  Octavia Butler

  Years, People, Fortune

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Seed to Harvest: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Breakup, Reality, Love Is

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• Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

  Alethea Kontis

  People, Tears, Together

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• Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--" "--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was.

  Rick Riordan

  Wise, Blessed, Hero

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• A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

  Jane Austen

  Body, May, Single Women

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.1149, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

  Gore Vidal

  Ignorance, Boredom, May

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• Atra esterni' ono thelduin Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr Un du evari'nya ono varda (May good fortune rule over you peace live in your heart may the stars watch over you)

  Christopher Paolini

  Stars, Heart, Over You

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• The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Mistake, Believe

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.458, e-artnow

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• The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

  Lauren Willig

  Speak English, Nuisance, Language

  Lauren Willig (2015). “The Lure of the Moonflower: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.259, Penguin

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• Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

  Jennifer Egan

  People, Phrases, Republican

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.88, Anchor

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• I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Incessant, Fortune

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.176

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• I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

  C. S. Forester

  Thank God, Birth, Miserable

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• …she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Children, Fortune

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “LITTLE WOMEN SERIES – Complete Collection: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men & Jo's Boys: The Beloved Classics of American Literature: The coming-of-age series based on the author’s own childhood experiences with her three sisters”, p.760, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I'll remember, too, if a soft rain falls gently, I'll stand in this place, recalling the last time, I saw your kind face. Good fortune go with you, to your journey's end, let the waters run calmly, for you, my dear friend.

  Brian Jacques

  Running, Fall, Rain

  Brian Jacques (2004). “Loamhedge: A Novel of Redwall”, p.91, Penguin

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• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disappointment, Ambition, Desire

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.15

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• Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Gratitude, Home, Sacrifice

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• The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.

  Harrison Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Teenage

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• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  Owain Glyndwr

  Cousin, Fear, Long

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• All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

  Greta Garbo

  Men, Heartless, Want

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• Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty
  And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive
  And make of the spirit your first place of account
  To the beloved, whose lights shine as from gold
  All of them worship out of fear of the fire �
  And consider deliverance abundant good fortune -
  Or, so they may dwell in the gardens, and reach
  To the meadows of paradise, and there drink from its rivers
  Of gardens or fire I have no opinion
  I seek no exchange for my dearest love

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Islamic, Sleep

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