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Fortune

«No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect»
«Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.»
Author: George D. Boardman | About: Fortune, Mankind | Keywords: architect
«I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.»
Author: Hermann Hesse (Novelist, Poet) | About: Belief, Fortune | Keywords: of value, transform
«There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.»
«Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.»
Author: Jim Hightower | About: Fortune, Problems | Keywords: panhandle, small fortune
«Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever»
«One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.»
«I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Fortune
«The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.»
Author: Seneca | About: Fortune | Keywords: bows
«My pride fell with my fortunes.»

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