Quotes About Fortune

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.

Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I'm not the happiest man on earth I'm surely the luckiest man alive.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

I'm a very wealthy man.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.