Ralph Waldo Emerson Fortune Quotations

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.