Fortune Quotes: Wise Words on Luck and Destiny (Page 2)

"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment"

"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own"

"The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A great mind becomes a great fortune"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A great fortune is a great slavery"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Fortune favors the brave"

Terence, Playwright

"I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it"

Mae West, Actress

"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Fortune and love favor the brave"

Ovid, Poet

"The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune"

William Penn, Leader

"Fortune sides with him who dares"

Virgil, Writer

"Fortune favours the bold"

Virgil, Writer

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together"

Douglas William Jerrold, Dramatist

"Fortune favors the bold"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"Every person is the architect of their own fortune"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor"

John Ruskin, Writer

"Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

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