Fortunate Quotes

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. (Norman Mailer)
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. View quote
Bertrand Russell
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. View quote
Pierre Corneille
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. View quote
Plutarch
I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society. View quote
Alisher Usmanov
But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it. View quote
Claire Danes
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. View quote
Rene Cassin
Inequalities are permissible when they maximize, or at least all contribute to, the long term expectations of the least fortunate group in society. (John Rawls)
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. View quote
Booker T. Washington
We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
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. View quote
Keanu Reeves
If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. View quote
Melinda Gates
My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case. View quote
Emmeline Pankhurst
There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either. View quote
Della Reese
Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here. View quote
Rick Danko
We players are as normal human beings as anyone else, and we also have the right to live a normal life. I don't understand why people talk so much about the way we dress up, how we walk, what we eat, and every little detail of ours. Players are the real heroes. Sports have both respect and fame, and I am fortunate enough to be a sportsperson. View quote
Sania Mirza
An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate. (Solon)
To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called - and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late! View quote
Spider Robinson
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. View quote
Peter Mere Latham
It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. View quote
Torquato Tasso
I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that. View quote
Kim Wilde