Quotes About Fortune

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-- it's born with us the day that we are born.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.

Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.