Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner." — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love… — John Lachs Copy Share Image
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve system obviously doesn't work anymore - they keep lowering the federal discount rate, and all that happens is that… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always believed that most large fortunes are made by men...who tumbled into a lucky opportunity. Hard work and attention to… — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good… — Socrates Copy Share Image
In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“You can't find happiness outside yourself, Calder." I shook my head. "You sound like a fortune cookie." "It's still true. Everyone's always… — Anne Greenwood Brown Copy Share Image
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune. — Appius Claudius Caecus Copy Share Image
![“[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive…” quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/483/jean-jacques-rousseau-418_anticipation_when-anything-happens-we-interpret-it-as_1541428.jpg)
