I had come to New York seeking my fortune after a few years of honing my craft as a stand-up on the… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills. — Zsa Zsa Gabor Copy Share Image
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people… — David Spade Copy Share Image
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
“When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone..… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“This dog won’t hunt. This horse won’t jump. You get the general drift. However, he keeps on trying, but the fire won’t… — Ludovico Ariosto Copy Share Image
Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal -… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
“What I “discovered” was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex… — Jerry Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Not necessarily, naive as evertook offense to get a promotion / her even if fortune can become a wrestler — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
It is not, after all, so very hard to acquire a fortune; the real difficulty is to deserve one. — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that… — Dmitri Alperovitch Copy Share Image
The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion. — Nawazuddin Siddiqui Copy Share Image
My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image