Fortunate Quotes - Page 31

• God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every moment of my life. We are so fortunate just to be alive.

  Randy Owen

  Alive, Moments, Reason

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• I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience and yet they changed the world.

  Maynard Webb

  Years, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

  Darren Flutie

  Football, Nice, Player

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• I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

  David Heyman

  Book, Right Time, Has Beens

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• I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

  Joseph Jarman

  Moving, Zone

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• The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.

  Julie London

  People, Choices, President

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• Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also.

  Claude Nicollier

  Dream, Next, Realizing

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• The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.

  Frederick Lenz

  Opportunity, Missing, Suffering

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• I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Ballet, Today

  Source: collider.com

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• I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

  David Brooks

  School, Film, Program

  "Director David Brooks ATM Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Somebody asked me recently, 'Have you done a lot of plays?' I thought hang on. I used to do nothing but plays. I've been very fortunate that on several occasions I've had jobs where I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer - however much money you've got.

  Bill Nighy

  Jobs, Play, Done

  Interview with Sarah Crompton, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2014.

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• I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new friends. I work with talented people. And each project and experience seems to be better than the last. I seem to be topping myself all the time. I think to myself: "It can't get better, it can't get better..." And then something happens that makes me feel like I'm truly richer for the experience.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Teaching, Thinking

  "Waitress - Nathan Fillion interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Men, Prejudice

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• Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

  Saadi

  Wise, Men, Comfort

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.147, Innovations and Information

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• Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Book, Childhood

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• Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.

  William Hazlitt

  Luxury, Poverty, Rich

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Views, Luck

  The Dalai Lama (2001). “Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists”, p.108, Shambhala

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• To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

  Aeschylus

  Fortune, Mortals

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (Choëphoræ, 60), 1922.

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• In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

  John Churton Collins

  Sea, Sorrow, Ponies

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• Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Passion, Men, May

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• I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling.

  William Hague

  Party, Careers, Political

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• It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to collaboration. There's a lack of a gender or ego in our conversations. And so you can really throw anything around.

  Christopher Nolan

  Brother, Honesty, Fun

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• I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now. Hell, I'm blessed to be in any position, you know? There are so many guys who had good lives, great lives, and blew it...I think there are some guys who think they don't deserve to have good lives. They feel they don't deserve their good fortune, so they throw it away. One of my good friends was Chris Farley. Chris blew it. He blew the whole enchilada.

  Tom Sizemore

  Good Life, Blessed, Good Friend

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews - that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

  Wayne Hale

  Past, Foam, Roulette

  "NASA mulls threat from protrusions". www.cnn.com. August 1, 2005.

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• Every coach always worries about accidents happening. I was very fortunate as a head coach that we were never in any accidents. But when you hear about them happening to other schools, it is very sad.

  Fred Williams

  School, Worry, Very Sad

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