Good Fortune Quotes - Page 9

• …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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Poverty, Common, Poor

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• Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

  John Lyly

  Women, Overcoming, Reason

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.70, Manchester University Press

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• What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your thought be good or bad, the law works and the condition grows. Any subject that you keep out of your mind tends to diminish in your life, because what you do not use atrophies. The more you think of grievances, the more such trials you will continue to receive; the more you think of the good fortune you have had, the more good fortune will come to you.

  Emmet Fox

  Gratitude, Thinking, Law

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• People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Honesty, Men, Thinking

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• Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Spirit, Calm

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• War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

  Walter Raleigh

  War, Order, Ruins

  Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh”, p.122

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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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• 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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• It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Support, Problem, Virtue

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• What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Envy, Cowardice, Fortune

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• ‘How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their eyes say. My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I’ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away.

  Tina Fey

  Mother, Dream, Jobs

  "Confessions of a Juggler" by Tina Fey, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2011.

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• If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such a universe would be neither evil nor good in intention ... The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Evil, Design

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• But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Political, Levers, Littles

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• All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

  Boethius

  Discipline, Rewards, Fortune

  Boethius (1897). “The Consolation of Philosophy”

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