Fortune Quote by Leon Battista Alberti Download Open image “Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.” — Leon Battista Alberti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fortune Men Misfortunes Source Wealth
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their… — John Locke Copy Share Image
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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… — Menander Copy Share Image
The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The function of the painter is to render... the visible surface so that at a certain distance... and position it appears... like the body… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be different from… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A great JRPG captures that feeling of going on an unusual adventure, of bringing a ragtag group of heroes from famine to fortune or… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
