Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market. — Jason Calacanis 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
Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Fortune, honour, beauty, youth, Are but blossoms dying; Wanton pleasures, doting love, Are but shadows flying. — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“It is fit that the fortune should be on his side, for I think the merit will be all on hers.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty. — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for. — Maynard Owen Williams Copy Share Image
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man… — Thales Copy Share Image
God and nature have thrown all human fortunes into the midst of mankind; and they are thus attainable rather by rapine than… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“You are heir to a heavenly fortune, the sole beneficiary of an infinite spiritual trust fund, a proverbial goldmine of sacred abundance… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Captain Huston and myself have spent over $200,000 in strengthening the Yankees since we purchased the club. We paid $37,500 for Frank… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
You can change your character and, at the same time, change your fortune. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
