“Luck is a fickle creature. She loves many, but is faithful to none.” — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. — David Mallet Copy Share Image
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful. — Martial Copy Share Image
Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility. — Joanna Krupa Copy Share Image
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Had I pursued a film career in Los Angeles, I'm not sure I would have had the fortune that I've had. — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The one thing that I've always wanted to do with my work is to create value and that's something that I've been… — Rohit Saraf Copy Share Image
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but… — Francis Quarles 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
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
The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image