Fortunate Quotes

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 was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.

You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.

I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.

It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?

Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you.

It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.

The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

I am very fortunate, and I never stopped being thankful.

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

I don't really look around and say, 'I've made it.' I just look around and think how fortunate I am to work with the people I'm working with.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

Ive been fortunate to be short my entire life. Theres only one position Ive ever had to play, and thats point guard. So Ive always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is going to say to me that I'm dropped or sacked, it's time to move on. I can play as long as I want to play.

You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me.

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

I feel very fortunate to be healthy, so I try to take advantage of it.

I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do.

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.

I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

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.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.