Fortunate Quotes

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

~ Criss Jami

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

~ Criss Jami

People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

~ Chris Prentiss

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.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I was so blessed. The first person I gave my heart to was an angel who plucked the feathers off his wings and built a nest for it.

~ Kamand Kojouri

It's all a series of serendipities with no beginnings and no ends. Such infinitesimal possibilities Through which love transcends.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

~ Criss Jami

Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fortunate than yourself, and you'll do well in the world.

~ Rebecca Rupp

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” )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone.

~ Criss Jami

Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow longer. Families and friends gather in celebration or hope. Giving is a reflection of our love and caring for each other and those less fortunate. May your thoughts turn to gratitude this holiday season and carry on throughout the next year…

~ James A. Murphy

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

~ Haruki Murakami

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.

~ Pat Conroy

Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them.

~ Chris Matakas

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.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

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.

~ Steven Magee

Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

~ Vera Nazarian

It's bad luck not to believe in luck.

~ R.j. Lawrence

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.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

~ Rose Kennedy

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

~ Ian Mckellen

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

~ Plutarch

I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.

~ Chris O'donnell

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

~ Jenny Shipley

I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.

~ Rose Kennedy

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

~ Ben E. King

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

~ Abbott L. Lowell

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.

~ Joseph Brodsky