It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job. — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Don't let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The truth is our immigration system is worse than anybody ever realized. But the facts aren't known because the media won't report… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have never dreamt of contesting the Church her right to remain faithful to herself, meaning to the commandments that come from… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity,… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
The important thing is to firmly fix our gaze on our own weaknesses, not run away from them, but to battle them… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“All this for two bad lines he could’ve gotten out of a fortune cookie?” — Zoe Forward Copy Share Image
