Fortune Quote by Euripides

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set…

— John Wooden

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

— Mark Kingwell

“The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune…

— Orison Swett Marden

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to…

— Epicurus

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he…

— Frederick Douglass

it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or…

— John Calvin

When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

— Euripides

If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

— Joseph Joubert

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld