“He who has relied on Fortune less has maintained his position best.” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any. — John Harington 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
“A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We've created quite a net worth. My… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and… — Rob Paulsen Copy Share Image
Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and… — Laurent Lamothe Copy Share Image
Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle… — Ovid Copy Share Image
It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these… — Tom Osborne Copy Share Image
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune of being 9 years old when The Little Mermaid came out, that whole run of really beautiful… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
![“I had the good fortune of being 9 years old when The Little Mermaid came out, that whole run of really beautiful Disney musicals, and so, the fact that I got to interview with Ron [Clements] and John [Musker], who directed The Little Mermaid, I was, like, I just walked in and said, "You're the…” quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57e/lin-manuel-miranda-2352_beautiful_i-had-the-good-fortune-of-being-9-years_2645449.jpg)
