Quotes about Fortune

Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

Fortune - Man

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Sophocles

Actress, Poet, Playwright

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Cautious - Destructiveness - Fall - Feelings - Fortune - Prosperity

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

Dependence - Ethics - Fortune - Happiness - Joy - Man - Unhappy

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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Fortune

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Fortune - Mindset - Philosophy

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Boethius

Leader, Philosopher, Philosopher

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Fortune - Man - Security

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Sophocles

Actress, Poet, Playwright

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Aid - Fortune - Nothing

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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.

Fortune - Inspiration - People - Planet - Speaking

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

Accept - Anger - Bitterness - Engagement - Fortune - Knowledge - People - Salvaging - Trial - Turmoil - Victim - Violence

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosopher

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Fortune - Friendship - Passport

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

Children - Creativity - Fortune - Making - Parents - Profit - Wealth

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Ovid

Psychologist, Poet, Poet

Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

Bravery - Fortune

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Thales

Mathematician, Astronomer, Philosopher

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

Animals - Fortune - Gratefulness - Human - Man

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

Fortune - Giving

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Napoleon Hill

Leader, Writer, Author

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

Fortune - Imagination - Purpose - Remembering

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Fortune - Greatness - Guilt - Man - State - Virtue

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Rutherford B. Hayes

Actress, President, 19th U.S. President

No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in the world as it would if it were divided into moderate sums and in the hands of workmen who had earned it by industry and frugality. The piling up of estates often does great and conspicuous good.... But no man does with accumulated wealth so much good as the same amount would do in many hands.

Benevolence - Fortune - Industry - Man - Moderation - Wealth - Wisdom - World

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

Children - Companion - Father - Fortune - Love - Poetry - Praise - Production - Rich - Value

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Fall - Fortune

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Alone - Fortune - Generosity - Heroism - Making - Nature - Work

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