Good fortune Quotes · Page 8

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

— Bryan Cranston

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.

— Alan Bean

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune…

— Saadi

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

— Patty Duke

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

— Neil Strauss

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

— Julie Andrews

I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

— Edie Falco

I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get…

— Tony Curran

I had the good fortune to begin my legal career as a law clerk for a judge who really epitomized open-mindedness and…

— Samuel Alito

I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already doing…

— Tituss Burgess

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working…

— Joe Pantoliano

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and…

— Rob Paulsen

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune…

— Jennifer Egan

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American…

— Gore Vidal

“O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall! But come…

— John Donne

I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set…

— Anonymous

Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet…

— Rick Riordan

Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a…

— Plutarch

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was Joan Blondell’s good fortune—and good sense—to develop a screen character that aged well. When middle age and increasing weight took…

— Eve Golden

Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being…

— Zhuangzi

I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan.…

— Eric Bana

“good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.

— Ty Olsson

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would…

— Tahir Shah

Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home…

— Suzanne La Follette

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

— Jodi Picoult

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

— Deepak Chopra

Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than luck.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good…

— Terri Guillemets

“Her good fortune, while not exactly making her shallow, had given her an insulated view from a window she didn’t care to…

— Anne Frasier

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will…

— Anonymous

I recognize my good fortune, that I got to live in Shondaland and work under Shonda Rhimes, and now I get to…

— Jerrika Hinton

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

— Plautus

I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the…

— Saint Patrick

I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.

— Don Coscarelli

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

— Josh Helman

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

— Charles Francis Richter