Fortunate
Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.
Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.
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Fortunate Quotations
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Adolf Hitler
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
Herodotus
I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate.
Shane West
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
Marquis de Sade
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus
We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
Aeschylus
I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.
Mike Krzyzewski
I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it.
Mike Krzyzewski
Fortunate Translations
fortunate in Afrikaans is gelukkig
fortunate in Danish is lykkelig
fortunate in Dutch is gelukkig
fortunate in Finnish is onnellinen
fortunate in French is heureux
fortunate in Latin is fortunatus, fortunatus, felix felicis, beatus
fortunate in Norwegian is heldig
fortunate in Portuguese is feliz, afortunado
fortunate in Spanish is afortunado
fortunate in Swedish is lycklig, tursam
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