It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends,… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious… — William James Copy Share Image
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these… — Tom Osborne 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
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune. — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
For those of us who have had the good fortune of a career in music, we feel an obligation to speak out… — John Popper Copy Share Image
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“What good were fate and fortune anyway? If there was some sort of plan she was supposed to follow, it was unreadable… — Andrea Lochen Copy Share Image
When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well. — Alec Wilkinson Copy Share Image
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
