Good Fortune Quotes - Page 14

• Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

  Don Sutton

  Good Luck, Effort, Best Of Luck

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• I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

  Edmund Hillary

  Home, Desire, Proud

  "Sir Edmund Hillary's last ever interview". Interview with Maggie Barry, www.noted.co.nz. January 26, 2008.

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• The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

  Chris Prentiss

  Successful, Path, Great Success

  Chris Prentiss (2008). “The Little Book of Secrets: Gentle Wisdom for Joyful Living”, p.81, BookBaby

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• I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.

  Leonard Maltin

  Teamwork, Memories, Interviews

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• Hidden in all good fortune is misfortune. And in all misfortune is good fortune. It's never going to stay the same as long you are in the world or unless you die while you are alive and become an enlightened Zen Master. But those people don't exist. When you study their lives, you find that they had the same struggles as the rest of us. It's not so much about being able to always have calm. Calmness isn't just the absence of noise or troubles. It's being able to find calm within yourself when other stuff is going on.

  Wayne Dyer

  Struggle, Long, People

  Source: www.drwaynedyer.com

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• True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has benefited most should contribute in proportion to their good fortune-and that serving others should be esteemed more highly than serving self.

  Eric Liu

  Country, Believe, Self

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.20, Sasquatch Books

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• Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.

  Josei Toda

  Destiny, Daily Activities, Enlightenment

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• I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system called Heart Yoga.

  Andrew Harvey

  Yoga, Heart, Genius

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• Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Envy, Mind

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• In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

  Karen Kain

  School, People, Generosity

  "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011.

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• The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

  Bryan Cranston

  Opportunity, Want, Fortune

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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• I hope that's what I've taught my girls - to be fair, to recognize their own position and their own good fortune, to use their voices to make things better. Beyond that, I'd tell them just to be kind.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Girl, Voice, Be Kind

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

  Cyrus the Great

  Kindness, Adversity, Men

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• People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we develop an abundance mentality, the more we are genuinely happy for the successes, well-being, achievements, recognition, and good fortune of other people. We believe their success adds to...rather than detracts from...our lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Mean, Winning

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• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Children, Book

  St. Mark's Rest preface (1877)

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• To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Attitude, Envy

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• PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pain, Mind, Done

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.743, Library of America

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• When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who has learned to rejoice in the good fortune of others experiences only happiness. Seeing another person's beautiful house or attractive partner immediately makes him happy - the fact that they are not his own is irrelevant.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Beautiful, Jealous, Heart

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• He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.

  Celia Thaxter

  Flower, Passion, Garden

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.4, Applewood Books

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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 fortune.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Believe, Long, Fortune

  Alexandre Dumas (1997). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Anatole France

  Often Is, Literature, Innocence

  "The Gods Are Thirsty". Book by Anatole France, 1912.

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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 remark to another, "Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days" or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, "thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!".

  George Orwell

  Successful, Eggs, Two

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Born, Fortune, Misfortunes

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• How you experience your life depends on how you look at it. If you look at it as a constant stream of difficulties and challenges, messes and problems, it will show up that way. If, on the other hand, you see it as a continuing flow of good fortune, one good thing after another, that is what you will encounter.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hands, Challenges, Encounters

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from May 04, 2017

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• We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

  Mark Twain

  Mom, Baby, Common

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2170, GENERAL PRESS

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