See your disappointments as good fortune. One plan's deflation is another's inflation. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around. — Barry O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“...you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.” — Izzeldin Abuelaish Copy Share Image
Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Luck is a fickle girl who doesn’t like lingering in any one place; she strokes your hair back from your brow, kisses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,… — Simonides Copy Share Image
God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'm enjoying every… — Randy Owen Copy Share Image
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means;… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he… — Pierre Berton Copy Share Image
But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
So use all that is called fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all and lose all, as her wheel rolls...… — Pat Tillman Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t she realize that the life she is living is an accident of fortune? Doesn’t she know that she is an exception… — Edwidge Danticat 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
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit — Jonathan Swif Copy Share Image
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on… — Jamal Lewis Copy Share Image
There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
I left school when I was 14 to go into Danish films. When I was 17, I went to Paris to make my fortune. — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am not going to fiddle taxes. I pay my accountant a fortune to look after me. — Harry Redknapp Copy Share Image
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
I don't envy young Brits crossing the Atlantic to make their fortunes today. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
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