The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Honore De Balzac

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
J. Paul Getty

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Herodotus

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.
Sarah McLachlan

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift

The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid

The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.
Robert Welch

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
Titus Livius

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.
Sydney Carter

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
William Penn

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Joseph Addison

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia Earhart

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
William Dampier

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J. Paul Getty

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld