Best 87 quotes in «fortunate quotes» category

Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

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

I really feel incredibly fortunate to not be stereotyped. And it's something that I and my representatives are very keen on preserving.

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

It's really important to be attentive to the people who have less - who are less fortunate than you are.

It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.

I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.

I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.

I've been really fortunate to go from series to series to series.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

I've been very fortunate to dodge a nickname throughout my entire career. I've never had one.

I've very fortunate to come from a great family who are extremely supportive of me and I'll always have them to fall back on.

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.

The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.

Number three is always fortunate.

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.

See, I'm fortunate that I get around a lot because of my movie business.

I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.

We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business.

Being tough isn’t in and of itself a bad thing. Looking back on it, though, I can see I was too used to being strong, and never tried to understand those who were weak. I was too used to being fortunate, and didn’t try to understand those less fortunate. Too used to being healthy, and didn’t try to understand the pain of those who weren’t. Whenever I saw a person in trouble, somebody paralyzed by events, I decided it was entirely his fault––he just wasn’t trying hard enough. People who complained were just plain lazy. My outlook on life was unshakable, and practical, but lacked any human warmth. And not a single person around me pointed this out.’” - Miu

Fortunately and unfortunately, I have found out the importance of self-control and learned it the hard way.

Falling asleep while driving was the most concerning health condition that I developed. I was fortunate that it would happen at stop lights and stop junctions, and I would fall asleep with my foot resting on the brake.

Fortunate are those who are loved back Even fortunate those whose love is cul

I consider myself fortunate that I no longer live in the home where I broke a mercury filled astronomical spectral lamp.

I cannot imagine how much I must’ve suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life.

I consider myself fortunate that I had only a decade of exposure to the biologically toxic field of high altitude astronomy.

I consider myself fortunate that I spent three years working at 7,775 feet before spending five years working at 13,796 feet on the summit of Mauna Kea. I can only wonder how much more severe my long term very high altitude sickness could have been without the initial adaptation to the lower altitude.

Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her parents had had on her personality. Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.

If any writer in this country has collected as fine and passionate a group of readers as I have, they’re fortunate and lucky beyond anyone’s imagination. It remains a shock to me that I’ve had a successful writing career. Not someone like me; Lord, there were too many forces working against me, too many dark currents pushing against me, but it somehow worked. Though I wish I’d written a lot more, been bolder with my talent, more forgiving of my weaknesses, I’ve managed to draw a magic audience into my circle. They come to my signings to tell me stories, their stories. The ones that have hurt them and made their nights long and their lives harder.