Good fortune Quotes · Page 6

“Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.”

— psyche roxas-mendoza

I wake up pinching myself with the things that I've had the good fortune to be able to do. If it all…

— Jack Reynor

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are…

— Arthur Ransome

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

— Tom Brokaw

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

— Cyrus the Great

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

— Roger Housden

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my…

— Daniel Nathans

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

— Ann Patchett

Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not,…

— William Hazlitt

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good…

— Nelson A. Miles

I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three…

— James Rebhorn

“I was convinced I had overdrawn my balance of good fortune; that whatever haphazard benevolence the impassive universe might hold towards me…

— william boyd

“If you can't participate in someone else's good fortune and show them love. How can you get offended when they don't partake…

— J. Wrice Sr

I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand…

— Chris Matthews

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but…

— Marcus Aurelius

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some…

— Guy Johnson

A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No…

— Bodhidharma

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the…

— Fay Weldon

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of…

— John Ruskin

Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love…

— E. O. Wilson

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to…

— Orison Swett Marden

The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and…

— Edward Gibbon

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain…

— Thucydides

An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

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

— Anonymous

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

— Baltasar Gracian

“Gods looked for such hubris when deciding where to step, and so far good fortune had been scarce.”

— Shawn Speakman

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of…

— Paul Sweeney

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as…

— Jean Baudrillard

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

— John Lyly

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an…

— Julia Quinn

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

— Dick Gephardt

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

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Sometimes, even in the most unfortunate of lives, there will occur a moment or two of good fortune.”

— Lemony Snicket

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.

— Lord Chesterfield

“It is never so difficult to congratulate a friend on her good fortune than when that fortune appears undeserved.”

— P.D. James