Fortune Quotes

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Arthur Schopenhauer
- Friends
- Fortune
- Passport
When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
- Successful
- Events
- Wishes
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

Plato
- Money
- Value
- Poets
Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…

R. M. Williams
- School
- Education
- Leave
When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.

Brian Tracy
- Thinking
- Brave
- Favors