A Quote by Charles Kuralt
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
Because the American credit reporting system relies on both good and bad reports of creditworthiness, a consumer must have some kind of credit - not just the absence of bad credit.
If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]
If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.
You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.'
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