Quotes About Fortune

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.

I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

Chances rule men and not men chances.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.