Quotes about Fortune
The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second.
- Dorothy Sayers
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
- Aesop
Charlotte read the preprinted slip. Redeemed. $1,000. She whirled around. "Wait, sir, excuse me, but how did you know . . ." But he was gone. Along with the crowd and the hum of voices. Charlotte stood completely alone except for the battered trunk and the glittering swirl in the air.
- Rachel Hauck
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe in luck - is skepticism.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.
- Confucius
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
- Marcus Aurelius
What men call accident is God's own part.
- Philip James Bailey
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him.
- Publilius Syrus
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- Edith Wharton
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
- Aristotle
A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.
- Seneca