Fortune Quotes - Page 39

• If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.

  Sallust

  Men, Good Man, Wicked

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• Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.

  Sallust

  Art, Passion, Government

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• It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

  Seneca the Elder

  Turns, Manly

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• though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Destiny, Luck, Mud

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.79

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• Lovers, like dying men, may well
  At first disorder'd be,
  Since none alive can truly tell
  What Fortune they must see.

  Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet

  Men, Dying, Firsts

  Sir Charles Sedley, “Song”

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• Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Children, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.505, Library of America

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• A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Character, Fate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.269, Penguin

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• Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, Plight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.337, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Wise, Men, Hands

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• Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly striving toward fame and fortune have resounded throughout literature and in the texts of history, biology, and psychology until they seem uncontestable. Such dichotomous views defy the complexities of individuals and stifle the potential for people to reveal different dimensions of themselves in various settings.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Home, Men, Views

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• It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

  E. Nesbit

  Beautiful, Ugly, Curious

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• Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.

  Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

  Looks, Casts, Ifs

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• Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, House, Gentleman

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• The fortune of war is always doubtful.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Doubtful

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• Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

  Seneca the Younger

  May, Wealth

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• Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

  Seneca the Younger

  Delay, Favour, Flight

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• Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  True Love, Favour

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• Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Hands, Effort

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• Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Humility, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.42, Penguin

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• We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ifs

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• There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.

  Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

  Quality, Want, Bad Qualities

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• Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

  Moliere

  Book, Good Friend, Bottles

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• Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

  Peter Thomas

  People, Effort, Arise

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• Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair.

  J. Cole

  Letting Go, Running, Dark

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• I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

  Kid Rock

  Blessed, Lucky, Enough

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Sep 20, 2013

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