Good Fortune Quotes

• Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

  

  Plato
  • Tomb
  • Good Fortune
  • Kinder Sea

• Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Good Fortune

• As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Spotlight
  • Good Fortune
  • Public Eye

• According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Competition
  • Shame

• Fourth, lucky people have a special ability to turn bad luck into good fortune. Of all four defining factors involved in luck, Wiseman believes this one plays the most important role in survival.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Ability
  • Role
  • Believes

• We are corrupted by good fortune.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good Fortune
  • Corrupted

• Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.

  

  Bias of Priene
  • Gods
  • Attribute
  • Good Fortune

• What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • People
  • Power
  • Good Fortune

• People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Environment
  • Relationships
  • Good Fortune

• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Mother
  • Goal
  • Best Wishes

• It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Fools
  • United
  • Good Fortune

• 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
  • Success
  • Knowledgeable
  • Good Fortune

• Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Success
  • Inspiration
  • Aspiration

• Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Road
  • Healthy
  • Leading Me

• Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Heart
  • Heaven
  • Enthusiasm

• I had the good fortune to direct my first professional production with one of my Dad's masterpieces, The Man Who Came To Dinner. What it taught me was how beautifully the Kaufman and Hart plays are constructed: with economy, and wit, and warmth, and a sensibility, and heart/Hart that appeals to every stripe of theatregoers. It was a gift that can't be underestimated.

  

  Chris Hart
  • Direct
  • Production
  • The Man Who Came To Dinner

• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reality
  • Choice
  • True Love

• Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.

  

  Ed Thigpen
  • Blessed
  • Forget
  • Gift

• 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
  • Happy
  • Suffered
  • Good Fortune