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...

Even though we’ve had bad fortune in the past, we’ve always played O-State tough — always. They know that, and we know that. I can’t wait. This is what college football is all about —...

No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

The key to success is having no qualms about failure.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you...

Men appear to prefer to ruin one another’s fortunes, and to cut each other’s throats over a few miserable villages, than to extend the means of human happiness

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of...

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence...

What do we lose by another ‘ s good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them,That should be our desire and determination.

Money isn’t the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

It’s a good way to make a small fortune smaller.

When we are rich and famous and powerful, we do not want to die. On the other hand, if we are miserable and suffering, we want to die and leave it all. But can joy...

No one could endure lasting adversity if it continued to have the same force as when it first hit us. We are all tied to Fortune, some by a loose and golden chain, and others...

Fortune favors the brave…

I’m swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands

We’re focused on the SMB market. Our customers are Fortune 500 companies and down. We don’t sell into the data centre. Our focus is on simplicity and ease of use.

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen...

All the world will beat the man whom fortune buffets

God’s prayer-line is not a wheel of fortune or lottery for the indolent.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Fortune is like glass–the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Fortune, that arrant whore,Ne’er turns the key to th’poor.

These people [the characters] are throwing dice with fortune. They’re gambling on their future, their liberty, everything.

Remember this: Everybody is less fortunate than you, in some way or another. If you are poor in wealth, be rich in spirit.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman’s idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman’s idea of the real.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed...

Too few rejoice at a friend’s good fortune.

The god abandons AntonyWhen at the hour of midnight an invisible choir is suddenly heard passingwith exquisite music, with voices ― Do not lament your fortune that at last subsides, your life’s work that has...

People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority… don’t seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up,...

In Madeleine’s face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they...

It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them...

A man’s best fortune, or his worst, is his wife

Studies have shown just the domestic market for third-party administration services for just the Fortune 500 to be in excess of $2.5 billion.

The commoditization of IT labor by Fortune 500 companies will foster the growth of union activity, … Price controls and margin controls are forcing providers of contract IT personnel to establish non-benefited classes of employees....

Ainsi dans le faste ostenstatoire d’une dernière cérémonie, le bourgeois, laissant à ses fils un héritage plus riche que celui qu’il a reçu de son père, quite ce monde où il a conu au moins...

Ist nicht eigentliches Ziel von Roman und Museum, unsere Erinnerungen so aufrichtig wie möglich zu erzählen und dadurch unser Glück in das Glück anderer zu verwandeln?

We were contacted by ‘Wheel of Fortune’ to see if we wanted to be part of the program.

Oh, I am fortune’s fool!