
“Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.”
Of Fortune
Essays (1625)
Source: Man’s Search for Himself (1953), p. 138
“Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.”
Of Fortune
Essays (1625)
Source: Working with Emotional Intelligence (1998), p. 317
Follett in: Pauline Graham (2003), Mary Parker Follett--prophet of Management, p. 115
Attributed from postum publications
“We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.”
The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 169
“Your capacity to own something is your capacity to change something.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 156
Second Thesis
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)
“Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.”
PART III, SECTION I.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)
Source: Creation Myths (1972), Deus Faber, p. 140 - 141