We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason — Marcus Cornelius Fronto Copy Share Image
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune. — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside… — Andrew Ridgeley Copy Share Image
I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say,… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“But Elise eclipses the woman from Jamey's future, the lady in tennis whites flashing her diamond as she drinks orange juice fresh-squeezed… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived… — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library)… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so… — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
“Know thus far forth. By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image