Good Fortune Quotes

• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Relationship, Thank You, Giving

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• Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

  Evan Esar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Evan Esar (1961). “Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar”

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 1 (1813)

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• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

  Walt Whitman

  Karma, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.226, NYU Press

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• We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

  Publilius Syrus

  Destiny, Fortune, Masters

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• It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Fool, Merit

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• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Faith

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• The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

  Abraham Maslow

  Beautiful, Fate, Wonderful

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Success, Mother

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• Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pieces, Improvement, Daily Life

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• It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Character, Fortune, Miscellaneous

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• A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wise, Business, Men

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• Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.

  Joel Osteen

  Positive Thinking, Positivity, Choices

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• He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

  Jim Davis

  Rocks, Rivers, Pockets

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• Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

  Francis Quarles

  Wisdom, Cards, Literature

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• Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

  Dick Gephardt

  Moral, Share, Fortune

  Twitter post from Nov 01, 2016

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• Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Men, Gambling

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• To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

  William Blake

  Believe, Miracle, Doe

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• Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Twilight, Sky, Snow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thankful

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• Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Fortune

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• Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast.

  Ovid

  Good Luck, Lucky Day, Hook

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• Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Struggle, Men, Progress

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.2, 谷月社

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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Fate

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