“If happiness is the highest good of a rational nature, and if what can be taken from you in any way cannot… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume Copy Share Image
President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support:… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There… — Howard Thurston Copy Share Image
Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut.… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein… — Josei Toda Copy Share Image
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling, I've felt all its favours and found its decay; Sweet was its blessing, kind its… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Good fortune comes with many fears. It is always threatened by tragedies. But misfortune always tends to hope and peace. Hope is… — Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar Copy Share Image
If you look at the careers of Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Paul Giamatti, Meryl Streep, none of them shot up in terms of… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good… — Ed Thigpen Copy Share Image
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am when the Chinese, who know everything, build a house, they consult the precepts of an ancient science, Feng Shui, which… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued you’ll always fancy yourself to be short of the things you… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky,… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and the 'economy of privilege.'… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The… — Mitsuo Fuchida Copy Share Image
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears… — Valerie Estelle Frankel Copy Share Image
“They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it "luck"; do not… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
