Welcome to Good Fortune Quotes, where we delve into the timeless wisdom and inspiration that surrounds the concept of good fortune. Throughout history, humanity has sought to understand and harness the elusive forces that shape our lives for the better. From ancient philosophies to modern-day reflections, the pursuit of good fortune has been a constant theme, guiding individuals on their journey towards prosperity, happiness, and fulfillment.
In this curated collection, we invite you to explore a treasure trove of quotes that illuminate the essence of good fortune. Whether you seek motivation, guidance, or simply a moment of reflection, these quotes offer profound insights into the power of positivity, gratitude, and perseverance. Join us as we embark on a journey through the words of sages, scholars, and thinkers from diverse cultures and backgrounds, each offering their unique perspective on the blessings that grace our lives.
Below, you’ll find an array of quotes on the topic of good fortune, waiting to be discovered, pondered upon, and shared with others. Feel free to unleash your creativity by incorporating them into your daily routines, decorating them on images, or adding your personal touch with stylish fonts. Let these quotes serve as beacons of hope and reminders of the abundant blessings that surround us.
I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet. Jane Siberry
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don’t have to face him on Sunday. Jamal Lewis
When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it’s like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically. Jackie DeShannon
I am pleased, with a feeling of good fortune, to be from Selanik. If you want to know the truth better, I feel that my chest is overflowing with a feeling of pride. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work. Kamala Harris
A wise man turns chance into good fortune. Thomas Fuller
Snapchat’s ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram. Mitch Lasky
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. John Denver
I’ve had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals. Ryan Reynolds
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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. David Ogilvy
I do mean this – I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer’s patients in the last three years of my mother’s life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined. James Rebhorn
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. Guy Johnson
When you work for Bruckheimer, you don’t get it any better. He’s the ultimate producer. I’ve had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years. Joe Pantoliano
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
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. Carol S. Dweck
I’ve had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period. Dennis Christopher
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. Anatole France
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. Ben Jonson
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. Adolf Hitler
Religions tend to disappear with man’s good fortune. Raymond Queneau
I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune. Neil Strauss
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. Carlos Fuentes
It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work ‘The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces. C. V. Raman
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. Patty Duke
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth. Saint Patrick
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren’t too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune. Anne Beatts
There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college. Dante Hall
I had the great good fortune of working with Christopher Plummer, Frances Sternhagen, and Arthur Hill early in my career, and it set a standard for the kind of work I want to do. David Morse
In preparing for my recording audition, my mom told me to YouTube the old ‘Peanuts’ Thanksgiving and Christmas specials to hear how Charlie Brown speaks. So I listened to as much as I could find online to get the voice right. Winning the role took a lot of hard work, but good fortune as well. Noah Schnapp
I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we’ve created are completely unnecessary. That’s just another person on the other side, and it’s his bad luck that he was born there and it’s my good fortune that I was born here. It’s all kind of illogical. Eddie Huang
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. Michael Apted
The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature. Nostradamus
From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits. Ernest Lawrence
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen
Those who have prospered and profited from life’s lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. Dick Gephardt
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. Amar Bose
The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity. Marquis de Lafayette
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years. Martin Lewis Perl
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I’m a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren’t on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand. Isaac Brock
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day. Benjamin Franklin
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. Paul Sweeney
The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I’m incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I’m blessed, and aware that it isn’t going to last forever. Tom Hanks
As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is pro-Israel regardless of party allegiance; Democrats and Republicans equally unite behind the blue-and-white. Elizabeth Wurtzel
If you don’t have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it’s a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I’m lucky in that – at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows – I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun. James McAvoy
But no, I’m not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who’s going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don’t have as much good fortune as others. Mark Wahlberg
It’s O.K. to accept good fortune. Will Oldham
I am very grateful for the opportunities I’ve had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion. Hansjorg Wyss
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels. Jonathan Ames
It is only from the people I’ve had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of ‘Moulin Rouge,’ for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn’t pretend to know all the answers – quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone. Simon Sinek
I’m one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I’ve had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me. Rob Paulsen
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. Gary Johnson
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. Giacomo Casanova
Labor is the fabled magician’s wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. James Weldon Johnson
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. Henry Rollins
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Bodhidharma
I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I’m already doing for more people as opposed to being so large and so great that I no longer want to do the thing that got me here. Tituss Burgess
I’ve had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my own tiny world. Richard Rohr
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator. Julian Baggini
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. Joseph Addison
I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege. Andrea Bocelli
I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. Birch Bayh
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. Lew Wallace
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. Ambrose Bierce
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I’ve consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life – and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it! Patrick Duffy
If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view. Robert Greene
The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later. James Tobin
Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will. Pema Chodron
I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don’t know what accounts for my good fortune, but I’m grateful for it. Ann Dowd
I believe that if you don’t derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don’t come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don’t feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste. Srikumar Rao
I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I’ve had. It just wouldn’t have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn’t have any such aspirations. And I still can’t believe my good fortune. Edith Widder
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can… become very onerous indeed. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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
It’s sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I’ve had in having a giving and loving family. James MacArthur
I’ve had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. Ted Turner
Several of the actors I’ve had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as ‘ultimate’. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews. Barry Pepper
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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. Nelson A. Miles
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. Baltasar Gracian
I’m a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that ‘Presumed Innocent’ brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way. Scott Turow
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case. Emmeline Pankhurst
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. Tucker Carlson
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. Owen Glendower
Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune. Aeschylus
It’s not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received. Park Bo-gum
I’ve had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I’m just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I’m the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break. Matthew Gray Gubler
If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves. Max Heindel
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
I’ve made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public. Joanna Garcia
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else. Jane Austen
I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said ‘Success is primarily luck anyway.’ And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant – so who am I to argue with him! George Kennedy
Not many men have both good fortune and good sense. Marilyn French
I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you’ll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life. Wayne Dyer
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. Michael Pollan
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. Robert A. Heinlein
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn’t everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you’ve no chance. John Barrow
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. Benjamin Disraeli