Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability… We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of… — Plautus Copy Share Image
Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Learning to endure, transform by perspective or action, and be grateful is the fast lane to a good life. That's right. Having… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Some people have made a fortune by being employed. Jerry Bruckheimer does not own his content. Warner Bros. owns his shows. They… — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him… — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
When I got out of school, I lived the myth of Horatio Alger, and my company was on the cover of 'Fortune'… — Omar Amanat Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For lots of people who became rich, they believe they earned their fortune through hard work. They don't think about society and… — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
“You can't tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes… — E. Joseph Cossman Copy Share Image
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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