Best Good Fortune Wisdom
283 Good Fortune quotes by 239 unique authors
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
— James Weldon Johnson
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If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun…
— James McAvoy
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If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but…
— David Ogilvy
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The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director…
— Simon Sinek
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After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me…
— Bruce Springsteen
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
— Ted Turner
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
— Walt Whitman
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As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth…
— Jane Austen
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He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.
— Jim Davis
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Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when…
— Louis L'Amour
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Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
— Evan Esar
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Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive…
— James Clavell
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I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
— Leo Tolstoy
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I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to…
— John Connolly
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Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I…
— Walt Whitman
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You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of…
— Arthur Ransome
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Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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