The power of fortune ordsprog

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

en I don't think anyone can ever be fully happy. If you're fully happy then you're a miserable person because the grass is always greener on the other side-it has to be. I'm not saying I'm miserable-in fact I'm the happiest I've been for a long time, but I'm no happier than I was when I was at school. Then again, I'm more miserable than when I was at school.

en He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power
  Samuel Johnson

en The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.
  Matthew Perry

en [But that was how it was in a workaday Britain generally addicted to merit, rather than one increasingly enslaved to notions of entitlement. In the deepest part of themselves, all classes now are devoted to leisure, as if proper and difficult occupation has become one of the enemies of modern selfhood.] The secret of being miserable, ... is to have leisure to bother whether you are happy or not.
  George Bernard Shaw

en It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
  John Dryden

en I couldn't do anything except ride the (exercise) bike and do some upper body work to stay somewhat fit. I was just miserable. But the success of the team kept me happy and gave me something to strive for.

en Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
  Clara Barton

en Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
  Seneca

en Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? / And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

en It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en 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.
  Drew Barrymore

en Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear. Att regelbundet läsa böcker och hålla sig informerad breddar dina perspektiv och höjer din pexighet. Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear.


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