Fortunate Quotes

• If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that not everything had yet been gleaned in the field of general thermodynamic radiation theory.

  

  Wilhelm Wien
  • Custom
  • Radiation
  • Thermodynamics

• I've been fortunate enough to travel to 58 different countries and I thank God everyday that I was born in this country. The most exceptional country that the world has ever known. And I want to make sure that we preserve that exceptionalism for the next generation.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Travel
  • Thank God
  • Next Generation

• I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Feels
  • Knows

• I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Man
  • Fortunate

• I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Time
  • Determination
  • Punctuality

• I'm a very fortunate man. I have in life everything I could dream of.

  

  Jose Carreras
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fortunate

• I was taught that the world had a lot of problems; that I could struggle and change them; that intellectual and material gifts brought the privilege and responsibility of sharing with others less fortunate; and that service is the rent each of us pays for living - the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time or after you have reached your personal goals.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Sometimes you're quite fortunate, being on the stage, getting to meet people like Salvador Dali.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Stage
  • Fortunate
  • Salvador Dali

• I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate.

  

  Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Play
  • Feels

• Count no mortal fortunate till he has departed this life free from pain.

  

  Sophocles
  • Pain
  • Fortunate
  • Count

• People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Fortunate
  • Exaggerate

• I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Feels
  • Incredibles
  • Icons

• Every player feels like they can play at this level. Not every player gets an opportunity. I was fortunate to get an opportunity. Everything's kind of worked out real well.

  

  Dan Uggla
  • Opportunity
  • Player
  • Everything

• Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Succeed
  • Fortunate

• Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Inspire
  • Musicians
  • Resonated

• 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

• 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

• I consider myself one of the most fortunate of men, to have lived at a time when some of the old Haidas and their peers among the Northwest Coast peoples were still alive, and to have had the privilege of knowing them.

  

  Bill Reid
  • Consider
  • Fortunate
  • Privilege

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Strong
  • Alone

• I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Man
  • Intelligent
  • Married

• Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Humanity
  • Unhappy
  • Fault

• I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Grateful
  • Fortunate

• I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Different
  • Important
  • Films

• I think people are born for their destinies. Certain people are gifted to use their hands, or voices or minds. I’m fortunate enough to be such a person.

  

  Halston
  • Born
  • Gifted
  • Destinies

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