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.

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

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...

A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to manifesting your true destiny.

Good fortune comes with many fears. It is always threatened by tragedies. But misfortune always tends to hope and peace. Hope is the heart of life. Flowers have fear of being withered while Thorns have...

I’m as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.

If, on the other hand, in the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

So dry your tears. Fortune has not yet turned her hatred against all your blessings. The storm has not yet broken upon you with too much violence. Your anchors are holding firm and they permit...

Vielleicht wird unser Vorurteil auch dadurch bestärkt, daß es – von außen gesehen – oft vom Leben Begünstigte zu sein scheinen, […] denen wir daher sozusagen das Recht nicht zusprechen wollen, daß sie erkrankten; kennt...

Ideas doesn’t make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –

What i’m saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune’s a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

Fortune Interactive was conceived with two core goals in mind; increase our clients’ revenue while maintaining the highest levels of communication. The search marketing industry is suffering from growing-pains with relatively few companies able to...

Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won’t meet. Breaking the broom isn’t a must. Don’t mistake unmoved dreams for dust

when morning arrives, a day comes. Each day opens it doors of fortune and misfortune to all. There is non who is neither fortunate nor unfortunate in a day. The onus lies on pilgrims of...

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

I am evenThe natural fool of fortune.

You are heir to a heavenly fortune, the sole beneficiary of an infinite spiritual trust fund, a proverbial goldmine of sacred abundance beyond all common measure or human comprehension. But until you assert your rightful...

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a...

Normality wasn’t in the days I’d left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.

In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom

As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She’d been lucky in so much, it had...

Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our...

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity...

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a...

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a...

You always invest the money you earn. That’s the only way you can really speed up your fortune.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Live up to your morals and values- whilst remaining aware of them, embrace your unique self, your individuality and be happy the way you are. Remembering to shift your focus to the goodness in your...

When Fortune knocks, open the door,’ they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty....

Fortune favors the brave. They taste crunchier.

‘Fortune favors the brave.’ Another moment of silence. And then, Iolanthe found herself shouting at the top of her lungs, her voice nearly drowned by the bellow of all the rebels present, ‘And the brave...

Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or more generations they should have a small fortune of ‘ancient’ famous...

This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.

Good fortune is created/written/made.

Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.

We made fortunes off of leverage (before going public), and you’re not going to make fortunes in the public market off of leverage.

Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don’t think Fortune has anything to do with it?

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn’t expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since...