Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune. — Peter Thomas Copy Share Image
The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end. — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. — Plato Copy Share Image
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall! — John Donne Copy Share Image
Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune. — Laozi Copy Share Image
According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I have such amazing memories [about The Hotel New Hampshire movie], because Tony Richardson was such an amazing director, and the subject… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about… — Ken Osmond Copy Share Image
As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“It is always hard to leave a home a drama a way of life a life. So I sat there warm and… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
“In some ways, we all are a bit like Pharaoh. When we’re riding high and on top of the world, we’re convinced… — Spencer C Demetros Copy Share Image
We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not… — John Green Copy Share Image
The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I'm very fortunate, and the movies that I've made, even from the very beginning, have been very eclectic. The thing for me… — Mark Gordon Copy Share Image
The left think that this special place in the world, the United States of America, it just happened. It just is. And… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is… — Seneca Copy Share Image
... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Snapchat's ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram. — Mitch Lasky Copy Share Image
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for. — Maynard Owen Williams Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune. — Olivia Munn Copy Share Image
“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them. — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public. — Joanna Garcia Copy Share Image
I have had the great good fortune of working with a true genius of yoga, Karuna Erickson, in developing a new system… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image