Fortunate Quotes

• I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it.

  

  CeCe Winans
  • Country
  • Kind
  • Backgrounds

• I have gained a lot of perspective from the places I have traveled too and the people I have been fortunate enough to meet.

  

  Danny O'Donoghue The Script
  • People
  • Meet
  • Fortunate

• I'm not a karma guy. I don't believe in any kind of luck, either. ... We've been fortunate. I would say that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Believe
  • Guy
  • Luck

• If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
  • May
  • Think

• We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Real
  • Heart
  • True

• I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Time
  • World
  • Career

• I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

  

  Harpo Marx
  • Fortunate
  • Self-Taught
  • Harpist

• You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Success

• I don't consider my life to be boring at all. I consider my life to be massively fortunate.

  

  Eve Plumb
  • Life
  • Boring
  • Consider

• Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.

  

  Agnes Meyer Driscoll
  • Deep
  • Roots
  • Fortunate

• I think every artist that’s been around for a good while and is fortunate enough to still be working so much, never pushes the thought away, that one could come back with a new, big single.

  

  Natalie Horler Cascada
  • Single
  • Fortunate
  • Comeback

• I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

  

  Willie Mays
  • Play
  • Angry
  • Fortunate

• You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • President
  • Fortunate
  • Francisco

• The harder they work, the more fortunate they become.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Work
  • Fortunate
  • Harder

• I married my best friend. And I listen! Ultimately I've been very fortunate - I understand that that doesn't happen for everybody but it happened for us and we take it very seriously.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Married
  • Happened
  • Fortunate

• The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Fortunate
  • Customs
  • Milky Way

• We were more fortunate than most, because Bernard Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to travel from America back to England with him on the same boat. It was a very slow boat. I think it took us about seven days to cross the Atlantic.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Made
  • England
  • Crosses

• To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique.

  

  Steve Waugh
  • Care
  • Spirit
  • Mates

• An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

  

  Solon
  • Desires
  • Disaster
  • Satisfying

• That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.

  

  Confucius
  • Lives
  • Fortunate
  • Survives

• The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

  

  Herodotus
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Wealth

• I feel very fortunate to be in a position to where I can continue to make music and have people appreciate it.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • People
  • Music
  • Appreciate

• Teams have streaks, they get on a run, and this is fortunate for us because this team had been dying to do something like this for a couple years now.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Team
  • Couple
  • Dying

• To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!

  

  Spider Robinson
  • May
  • Enough
  • Fool

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