Quotes About Fortune

We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.

The secret of success is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

We make our fortunes and call them fate.

Personal distinction is the only passport to the society of the great. Whether this distinction arise from fortune, family, or talent, is immaterial; but certain it is, to enter into high society, a man must either have blood, a million, or a genius.

We make our own fortunes, and call them fate.

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. Thus, if you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done; the complexion of my future fortune being known to Him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.

Success has ruin'd many a Man. Industry, Perseverance, & Frugality, make Fortune yield.

Franklin's Note.—Nothing so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. Thus, if you teach a poor young man to shave himself and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. The money may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers,

As pride increases, fortune declines

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer, Let none think themselves out of her reach.