We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune. — Appius Claudius Caecus Copy Share Image
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“the arrows of fortune ….. derive their force from the velocity with which they are discharged; for, when they approach you by… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who… — Charles Dow Copy Share Image
The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest,… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“If I have fully diagnosed the cause and nature of your condition, you are wasting away in pining and longing for your… — Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Copy Share Image
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to… — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image