Good Fortune Quotes

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation.

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune.

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

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)

A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

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

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

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

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.

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

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

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

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally.

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

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

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure.

I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an historic year for Barca and for me but it's thanks to the work of everyone.

Bear good fortune modestly.

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

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