Quotes About Fortune

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

It is observed in the course of worldly things, that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues; and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby than by vices.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

A broker is a man who runs your fortune into a shoestring.

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.