Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit — Jonathan Swif Copy Share Image
Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills. — Zsa Zsa Gabor Copy Share Image
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the… — James MacArthur Copy Share Image
Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
At Halloween, when fairy sprites Perform their mystic gambols, When ilka witch her neebour greets, On their nocturnal rambles; When elves at… — Janet Little Copy Share Image
I am the same person as always and I have the good fortune to play in a great team. It was an… — Lionel Messi Copy Share Image
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“We have all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex… — Jerry Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“What I “discovered” was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
So use all that is called fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all and lose all, as her wheel rolls...… — Pat Tillman Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t she realize that the life she is living is an accident of fortune? Doesn’t she know that she is an exception… — Edwidge Danticat 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
His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me. — Harry Redknapp Copy Share Image
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I had come to New York seeking my fortune after a few years of honing my craft as a stand-up on the… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. — William Penn Copy Share Image
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little… — Alessandra Mussolini Copy Share Image
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