A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.] — Statius Copy Share Image
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“You always invest the money you earn. That's the only way you can really speed up your fortune.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is… — Feist Copy Share Image
Seek to advance your fortunes in this world. Set up a strong base so that you can practice your spirituality and be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
It has always been more difficult for a man to keep than to get; for, in the one case, fortune aids, which… — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I… — Hiroko Sakai 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
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
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image