The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune. — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
“He had caught both substance and shadow — both fortune and affection, and was just the happy man he ought to be.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just… — Lionel Richie Copy Share Image
“the old Styx responded, now speaking in English. “Every man is the architect of his own fortune, and unfortunate things happen.” — Roderick Gordon Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all… — Hope Solo Copy Share Image
Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that… — John T. Chambers Copy Share Image
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge… — Horace Copy Share Image
To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed… — Ernest Lawrence Copy Share Image
The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
