Best 87 quotes in «fortunate quotes» category

In India, we have a saying: 'Always look down, never look up," he said. "When you are trying to determine where you stand in life, don't look upward at the rich people, the people with everything. Look downward at the people who have nothing, those begging on the street, those living in the slums. There's no end to looking up and feeling badly. And if you try to spit upward it only falls down upon your own face. Only by looking down do you understand your dharma.

Some have the fortune to wake up from a nightmare (...) Others live in a constant daymare.

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.

It's bad luck not to believe in luck.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

Some have the fortune to wake up from a nightmare (...) Others live in a constant nightmare.

The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ( “Keeping up with the Joneses” )

We are so surrounded with this fortune that we tend to forget that though subjectively in abundance, objectively this is a rarity.

Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, there are no fortunate. The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous — that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn without ceasing to fly — therein lies the marvel of genius. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness

God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.

You too are going to die, and that's because you too were fortunate enough to have lived. You may not feel this. But go stand on a cliff sometime, and maybe you will.

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.

Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one.

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.

I am doomed or fortunate to stick to what I do best.

I feel that I've been very fortunate in the films that I have gotten and that I've chosen to do.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

I feel very fortunate that I played for the four organizations I did.

I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed.

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

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

I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

I'm definitely one of the more fortunate ones when it comes to being in the right place at the right time.

I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.

I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

I'm fortunate because people can't put a label on me, which I embrace wholeheartedly.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

I'm incredibly fortunate and it's important to me to make sure that I give back where I can.

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.

I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.

I'm very fortunate. I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything.

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

I never forget that I'm extremely fortunate.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.

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.