Good Fortune Quotes

Somewhere along the line, positive thinking seems to have been confused with magical thinking. There’s a notion that if you think positively enough, you can make anything happen by using the power of your mind. All the positive thinking in the world won’t deliver good fortune or prevent tragedy from striking.

It’s always the big question in our lives if you have a lot of success. What do you do with it? Buy more houses, buy more cars, buy more stuff, be wealthy and distant and unengaged? Or do you take all that good fortune that has come towards you and spread the love, do something with it?

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

Nothing can prepare you for the all-consuming nature of motherhood, and I am very aware of my good fortune, as I spent years fretting about whether I’d ever meet anyone to have a baby with.

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don’t publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don’t care about them?

I have been listening to the Stooges‘ self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with.

Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn’t quite believe and share it with everyone around him.

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 life is a profound and passionate thing.

I don’t think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.

I had the great good fortune of getting my Ph.D. in the very first year that universities were actively seeking women faculty. The government was putting pressure on universities to hire more women.

Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the ‘New York Magazine‘ as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the ‘Herald Tribune’ to stay home with my young daughter.

If I had not made a film like ‘Vaanaprastham,’ I would not have been able to go to Cannes or any other festival. I would not have had a chance to act as a Kathakali artiste. I would not have had a chance to be with some of the greatest Kathakali artistes. I consider all this my good fortune.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

These are hallowed moments, when every American has reason to express his gratitude to Almighty God that it has been our good fortune to witness the light of this auspicious morn.

For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I’ve had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I’ll never forget either feeling.

I’ve had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

I’ve had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Basically, I’m living the life of an actress in L.A. And I’ve recently had some pretty good fortune.

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 don’t let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else‘s advertising.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

I wake up pinching myself with the things that I’ve had the good fortune to be able to do. If it all ended right now, I’d be completely fine with it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Religions tend to disappear with man’s good fortune.

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid – I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.

Donald J. Trump has the good fortune of taking office as the economy is finally recovering from the 2008 crisis.

Hyeon means sunshine. Seo means good fortune. I chose it so that I would live my life in light and warmth and not return to the shadow.

I’ve made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

When I joined Granada – which, you don’t want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time – the BBC was firmly asleep.

Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

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