Good Fortune Quotes

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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

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.

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

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

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

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

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

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.

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

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

Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

All was glorious - a cloudless sky above, a most delicious view around. . . . How great is our good fortune! I care not what may be the condition of the earth; it is the sky that is for me now.

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

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

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.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune; His jewels are his good children.

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.

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

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

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

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

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

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...

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

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

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.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.