Fortune Quote by Ann Patchett

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

— Euripides

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they…

— Plutarch

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

— Aeschylus

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune…

— Hannah Arendt

Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the way from…

— George Crabbe

If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as…

— Sallust

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

— Euripides

You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

— Dick Gephardt

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place…

— Chris Prentiss