It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the… — Eminem 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
I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children. — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the… — Linda Darling-Hammond Copy Share Image
“So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it. — Hector Elizondo Copy Share Image
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick… — Matilde Serao Copy Share Image
In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
My father insisted that each of us have a career. His family were refugees and he understood the vicissitudes of fortune. — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
