Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
A gimmick would be something you'd do to attract attention or to bring fame and fortune. — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know… — Pindar Copy Share Image
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
