Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Fortune and fame are pursued by some, but many just want to be valued and validated.” — Faydra D. Fields Copy Share Image
People think you earn a fortune in TV, but that's not always the case, especially when you're working as a children's presenter. — Helen Skelton Copy Share Image
... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying. — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
What's the most important thing in life? To me, it's FAMILY...If you take away the fame & fortune they're the ones that… — Hussein Uolt Copy Share Image
Though I may not be able to leave my children a fortune when I die...may I leave them a legacy of truth,… — Kevin Messick Copy Share Image
I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due… — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
“Robin was disposed to feel desperately sorry for anyone with a less fortunate love life than her own – if desperate pity… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy's and her sister Lee Radziwill's families and… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend and lift… — Proverb Copy Share Image
All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
An exception was made with respect to me, because of my victory over Marshall. Some of the masters objected to my entry… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
That's a good question. I think there should be many other women CEO s. It feels natural to be a CEO of… — Angela Braly Copy Share Image
There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“Fortuna favet fortibus (fortune favors the brave) -mentioned in The Black Book of Secrets” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the part of cowardice, not of courage, to go and crouch in a hole under a massive tomb, to avoid… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall! — John Donne Copy Share Image
Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end. — Charles C. Mann 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
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. — Plato Copy Share Image
If you have no family or friends to aid you . . . turn your face to the Great West and there… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
