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• 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. -- George Dana Boardma...
• Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it.
  However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself....
• The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book i, Chap. iv...
• Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Fortune...
• His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 283
• Every man is his own hell. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• Man is his own star; and that soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.
  -- John Fletcher (1576-1625) -- Upon an "Honest Man's Fortune...
• The Corners of the Mouth. Perseverance brings good fortune.
  Pay heed to the providing of nourishment. And to what a man seeks To fill his own mouth with....
• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
  -- Schopenhaue...