It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to… — John Barrow Copy Share Image
I wake up pinching myself with the things that I've had the good fortune to be able to do. If it all… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours. — Horace Copy Share Image
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build… — John W. Thompson Copy Share Image
Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery. — Kevin Zraly Copy Share Image
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing. — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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