Best Good Fortune Proverbs
283 Good Fortune quotes by 239 unique authors
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Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
— Alice Hoffman
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
— Toni Morrison
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.…
— Euripides
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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
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We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good…
— Alexandre Dumas
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I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune:…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent…
— Charlotte Bronte
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We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
— Joshua Ferris
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to…
— Pema Chodron
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The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast
— Rachel Caine
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Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of…
— Bertrand Russell
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Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in…
— Jean Baudrillard
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God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little…
— Jane Austen
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…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
— Louisa May Alcott
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I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
— C S Forester
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I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters…
— Jennifer Egan
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The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they…
— Lauren Willig
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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Atra esterni' ono thelduin Mor' rana li'fa unin hjarta onr Un du evari'nya ono varda (May good fortune rule over you peace live in your…
— Christopher Paolini
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I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may…
— Gore Vidal
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Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen…
— George Orwell
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Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.
— C.S. Lewis
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