When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
“...it is our good fortune that the exigencies of birth and training furnish all of us with the opportunities for snobbery.” — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is my good fortune that I am the first Sikh to be playing lead roles in Hindi films. — Diljit Dosanjh Copy Share Image
“Uniquely, people who made suicide attempts were found to be especially prone to so-called "fortune telling," through which they predict and firmly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I think back to having had the good fortune of being at Warner Bros. when we were doing 'Lois & Clark.' The… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Black people are often praised as heroes for saving a country that treats us like third-class citizens, yet when it comes to… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that… — Henry Every Copy Share Image
The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune.… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
“For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“When you work hard in a job that suits your living standards, never greed for fortune because you will distract yourself from… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune. — Boethius Copy Share Image
When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“I'm also staring at the fortune cookie. Its got a lot of blood on it and I shrug and say, as jovially… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease. — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
“A person is known by the company he keeps…especially if it is in the Fortune 100 list!” — Ankala Subbarao Copy Share Image
Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
To long for fame and Fortune would be to rob your self of Love and family...Love your self better than that! — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
The creams I use are not expensive. Nivea is just as good. Why waste a fortune? — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
