logo

Quotes About Fortune

For rarely man escapes his destiny.
~ Ludovico Ariosto
Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.
~ Miguel Torres
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
~ Saint Basil
"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"
~ Sigmund Freud
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
~ William Shakespeare
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
~ Aeschylus
Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich.
~ Russell Conwell
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
~ William Penn
Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.
~ Edward Bellamy
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.
~ George S. Clason
So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.
~ H. G. Wells
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.
~ Madame de Stael
Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.
~ Menander
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
~ Phil Ochs
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
~ Quintilian
No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.
~ Ammianus Marcellinus
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.
~ Anthony Trollope
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
~ Benjamin Rush
Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.
~ Plato
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
~ Robert Greene