(1467 quotes found)
“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever”
Lao Tzu
“My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Change yourself, and fortune will change”
Portuguese Proverb
“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”
Anita Baker
“We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“If ignorance paid dividends most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics”
Luther H. Hodges
“To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature”
William Shakespeare
“FRIENDLESS, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.”
Ambrose Bierce
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.”
