Fortune Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

— Herodotus

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

— Edmund Burke

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

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

— Boethius

The darkest moment of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without even earning it.

— Frenchqueen

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he…

— James Ellis

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he…

— Frederick Douglass

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely…

— Horace Greeley

“The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and of great passions from the pursuit of power, and it very frequently happens…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

— Antoine Rivarol

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

— Herodotus

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

— Horace Greeley