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
“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity,… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
The facts [on immigration system ] aren't known because the media won't report on them. The politicians won't talk about them and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years. — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a… — William Makepeace Thackeray 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