#fortune

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#gratefulness #misfortunes #reflection #men

The greatest reward for a man's failure is not necessarily the consequent success, but what he becomes by it. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #success #the-fortune-in-failing #inspirational

Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #opportunity #the-fortune-in-failing #inspirational

Fortune and love favor the brave. ↗

— Ovid

#brave #favor #fortune

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#appreciate #cannot #caught #changing #correctly

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. ↗

— Clara Barton

#economy #fail #fortune #hand #life

It took me about 10 years to get rid of. I'm all right now, though, lovely, I'm throwing some nice darts at the moment, but every now and then I get a bit of a jump. I wish I could find a cure, I'd make a bloody fortune. ↗

— Eric Bristow

#bit #bloody #could #cure #darts

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes. ↗

— Jacques-Louis David

#correct #experience #fortune #glory #hard

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#better #character #dares #everyone #expose

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#beginning #being #center #completely #devoted