You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. — Confucius Copy Share Image
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him… — Horace Copy Share Image
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit. — Horace Copy Share Image
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on. — Daniel Bryan Copy Share Image
It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of is patients, is old-fashioned,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Brandy Potter Copy Share Image
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled… — Aristotle 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
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one… — John Jay Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to direct my first professional production with one of my Dad's masterpieces, The Man Who Came To… — Chris Hart Copy Share Image
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere. — David Friedman Copy Share Image
