Fortune Quote by Jonathan Swift

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit

— Jonathan Swif

“And in examining their life and deeds it will be seen that they owed nothing to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

— Boethius

“If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is reasonable to…

— Aristotle

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

— Robert Burton

“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.”

— Boethius

“True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action, But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare…

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

— Heloise

All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the…

— Seneca the Younger