Good Fortune Quotes - Page 1

• Jane Austen / Novelist

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

• Decimius Magnus Ausonius / Poet

Bear good fortune modestly.

• Will Oldham / Singer-Songwriter

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

• David Cassidy / Actor

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.

• Marcus Aurelius / Roman Emperor

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

• Benjamin Disraeli / Former Leader Of The House Of Commons

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

• Thomas Fuller / Physician

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

• Max Stirner / Philosopher

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

• Aeschylus / Dramatist

Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

• Stephen King / Author

Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.

• Walt Whitman / Poet

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

• Henry David Thoreau / Author

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

• Marilyn French / Author

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

• Raymond Queneau / Novelist

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

• Aeschylus / Dramatist

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

• Anatole France / Poet

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca /

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

• Walt Whitman / Poet

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

• Marcus Aurelius / Roman Emperor

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

• Carlos Fuentes / Novelist

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.

• Bodhidharma / Biographer

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

• Adolf Hitler / Former Chancellor Of Germany

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe / Writer

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

• Tacitus / Historian

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

• Ben Jonson / Playwright

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

• Lew Wallace / American Statesman

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

• Joseph Addison / Essayist

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

• Ryan Reynolds / Film Actor

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

• John W. Henry /

I had the good fortune to call George Steinbrenner both partner and friend.

• Orlando Bloom / Actor

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

• Alan Bean / Astronaut

I had the good fortune and the gift to be one of the 12 men to walk on the moon.

• Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure

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

• Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe / Writer

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

• Jimmy Smits / Actor

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

• Ty Olsson / Actor

I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.

• Ambrose Bierce / Journalist

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

• Diljit Dosanjh /

It is my good fortune that I am the first Sikh to be playing lead roles in Hindi films.

• Joanna Garcia / Actress

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

• James Weldon Johnson / Author

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

• Niccolo Machiavelli / Historian

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

• William Boyd / Novelist

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

• Martin Lewis Perl / Physicist

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

• Neil Strauss / Author

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.

• David Attenborough / Broadcaster

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

• Jack O'connell / Actor

I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

• Judith Durham /

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

• Daniel Nathans /

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

• Dante Hall / Football Player

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

• Anthony Scaramucci /

Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than luck.

• Tom Brokaw / Journalist

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.