It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I hope you appreciate the magnitude of your impending good fortune.” — The Sure Thing Copy Share Image
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just. — Boethius Copy Share Image
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. — Socrates Copy Share Image
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you ask me what is the best good fortune in my life, of course I say that I have seen in… — Joachim Sauer Copy Share Image
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
“But if it were only a matter of attracting success and good fortune to his city and his empire, then being pronounced… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
I've never had good fortune with sequels. Everyone says this time is going to be better. And then I've done them and… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
“I'm not ambitious for a splendid fortune, a fashionable position, or a great name for my girls. If rank and money come… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to be thrown unexpectedly into something called the Labour Research Unit - a little known organisation set… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals. — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
