Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet. — Benvenuto Cellini Copy Share Image
Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. — Virgil Copy Share Image
A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune. — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
When life has beaten you up and you can't see a way to go on. Trust that tomorrow will change your fortune. — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, even in the most unfortunate of lives, there will occur a moment or two of good fortune.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time when I knew nothing I wanted fame and fortune. Now I know how little I know, I just… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
“That’s nonsense,” said Jackaby. “Fortune favors the prepared. Unless you’re talking about the Fates, in which case fortune generally favors Zeus. Were… — William Ritter 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
The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I assure you, Alexandra Pavlovna,' said Pigasov slowly, 'nothing can be worse and more injurious than good-fortune that comes too late. It… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing… — Robert Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and… — Jerry Della Femina Copy Share Image
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image