See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me. — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading… — Walt Whitman 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
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my… — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we… — Robert Ley Copy Share Image
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant. — Anonymous 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
Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I hope that's what I've taught my girls - to be fair, to recognize their own position and their own good fortune,… — Jennifer Weiner 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
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hopefully, I will emerge more shining. If I have that good fortune, if I am blessed in that way - and I… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image