Fortunate Quotes

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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Sitting with the poor and less fortunate people removes the ego and pride from your heart.

Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate.

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers.

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

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique.

I've been fortunate. I've had no residual effects whatsoever. I got out just in time.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

I was fortunate enough to be an American citizen by birth and I have the birth certificate to prove it.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

I feel very fortunate that I was raised in a multicultural family, and it came through food.

We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

I remind myself everyday just how lucky I am to do what I love! I feel so fortunate and I'm just trying to take my life one day at a time.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

We should not call a city happy because it attracts masses of citizens from everywhere; a fortunate city is one in which the race of the original inhabitants is best preserved.

I had my first 'Survivor Series' in 1991 and I was fortunate enough to be an instrumental part of the shows I was on.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.

I write because I love to. I'm very, very fortunate to have found something that I love doing that also earns my living. But to be honest, I'd write even if I weren't being paid to.

If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.