Fortune Quotes
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
Petrarch
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Titus Livius
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Francis Herbert Hedge
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
Anita Brookner
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
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
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Francis Bacon
It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.
Cicero
