No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own… — Francis Herbert Hedge Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Fortune smiles at a man on occasion, but misfortune rains down from on high with fury and volume. My dad used to… — Nathan Yocum Copy Share Image
It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy… — George Lillo Copy Share Image
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The 'Daughter of the Regiment' that I did in Boston was vintage Sarah Caldwell, which is to say it was brilliant. Before… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding... and all of you were with me through the storm.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten.… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
[With] closet indexing…you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Next to being right in this world, the best of all things is to be clearly and definitely wrong, because you will… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by… — Matilde Serao Copy Share Image
If we lose a job, we are easily tempted into thoughts like, "Ain't it awful? There aren't any jobs out there. This… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making… — Samuel J. Tilden Copy Share Image
Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism,… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“❝Happy endings don’t come cheap. It isn’t enough to know you've found your soul mate, if you believe in that kind of… — Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image