I dropped my gardening tools, threw my bicycle over a hedge and went in search of fortunes laid beneath the hangman’s noose.

Good fortune and talent are both ingredients of success, but like any recipe, they can be substituted with clever alternatives. The one irreplaceable ingredient I’ve found, however, is work.

The mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.

Seek happiness now within you. Don’t look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will...

We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.

Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking...

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can’t afford to pay back.

It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her human grandeur to an ever growing degree. Her strength, her purity...

When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray

Would you like to know your future?If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator.So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence —...

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

Life is about making mistakes. If you don’t take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you’re not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry. You’re denying...

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

Fortune’s fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.

The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase of industrial production by the application of machinery, the improvement of old technical...

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the...

Fortune rules life, not wisdom

It is more easy to get a favor from fortune than to keep it

Fortune love you.

We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

Life-ahead is timeless fortune.

We’ve got the worst teeth in the nation and we’re paying a fortune for it. We spend far more than other states on Government dental services.

Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn’t believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling.”That’s more like it,” Nico said. “Let’s turn this tide!

What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible.

Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

Our customers range from small startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, and span industries such as electronics and high tech, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods. One major theme that has emerged from the majority of our...

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

We don’t want to make a fortune. We just want to make a living.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Fortune pays sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration

We’re used to seeing a radio station turn around in one rating period. You change the talent, the ratings go up, your revenues follow and you’ve made a fortune out of it. Television, unfortunately, is...

She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king’s palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what...

The shifts of fortune tests the reliability of friends

€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

You’ll never make a fortune working for the boss man

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

Fortune is either with you or it’s not.

What good were fate and fortune anyway? If there was some sort of plan she was supposed to follow, it was unreadable to her and impossible to stick to. She was tired of fate, which...

My good fortune was that I married her.