A Quote by Marcus Aurelius

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Marcus Aurelius

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Abandoned Actions Character Fortunate Fortune Good Good Action Good Actions Good Character Good Fortune Good Intentions Intentions Make Man Me Once Point Some True Yourself

Quote Author

Marcus Aurelius
Roman - Leader
121 - 180

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

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

Elyn Saks

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

Marquis de Lafayette

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Walt Whitman

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

Ben Jonson

There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'

David Quammen

A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

Ben Harper

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

Walt Whitman

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

Walt Whitman

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.