Fortunate Quotes - Page 25

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

Malcolm Forbes

Virtue, Virtuous

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I have been very fortunate in [the entertainment] business, and I am very grateful for that. I wish the same for everyone out there, especially everyone who dares to dream.

Jorja Fox

Dream, Grateful, Ambition

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There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are going hungry. Included among these millions are children who, due to malnourishment, are not developing to their full potential intellectually, emotionally or behaviorally. The fortunate must provide for the unfortunate.

Swoosie Kurtz

Children, Epidemics, Land

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If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

Napoleon Hill

Gratitude, Thinking, Slavery

"The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built".

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Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.

Pierre Corneille

Gratitude, Grateful, Sadness

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Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.

Dai Vernon

Believe, Moving, Magic

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Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

Malcolm Forbes

Memories, Recollection, Selective

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Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Effort, Energy, Groups

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I’m fortunate to have found out early, in 1990, just two years after I retired, that I have neurological damage. I try to manage it. I know what can trigger headaches and try to avoid it. I have short term memory problems, so I make a special effort to remember people and names. I have to work harder, but it’s important.

Harry Carson

Memories, Hard Work, Names

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I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

Duncan Sheik

Creativity, People, Creative

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I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

Duncan Sheik

Want, Able, Get Away

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We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

Joe Dumars

Smart, Player, Three

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I was fortunate to become the woman I always wanted to be.

Diane von Furstenberg

Wanted

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I wish I was as fortunate as fortunate as me

Matt Hardy

Wish

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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

Vince McMahon

Real, Common Sense, Guy

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Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

Todd McFarlane

Scratches

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I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

Bernard Cornwell

Book, Married, Clear

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Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Mitchell Kapor

Father, School, Math

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If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible.

Jim Rohn

Encouragement, Inspiration, Impact

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I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

Rick Springfield

Games, Video, Vanguard

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As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those who have been so fortunate as to come into the world foolish. Expressing skepticism that adventure does not necessarily contribute to scientific knowledge.

H. L. Mencken

Adventure, World, Care

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My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

Christopher Eccleston

Drinking, Parent, Way

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Alexander Fleming

Discovery, Triumph, Problem

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He was fortunate to fight me on a bad night because if he fights me when I'm firing on all cylinders, he's getting battered as well.

Carl Froch

Motivation, Fighting, Night

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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Samuel Johnson

Pain, Solitude, Feelings

Rasselas ch. 26 (1759)

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