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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
-Chinese Proverb
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Misfortune does not always result in harm.
-Italian Proverb
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Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
-Proverb
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When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth
-Proverb
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Against change of fortune set a brave heart.
-Proverb
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People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.
-Proverb
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There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.
-Proverb
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In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
-Proverb
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One's best fortune, or, their worst is their spouse.
-Proverb
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Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.
-Proverb
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There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.
-Proverb
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
-Aesop
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
-Jane Austen
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
-Francis Bacon
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
-Honore de Balzac
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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
-Ambrose Bierce
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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
-Buddha
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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
-Eric Butterworth
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Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
-Appius Claudius Caecus
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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
-Charles V
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
-Lydia Maria Child
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Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.
-Appius Claudius
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
-John Dryden
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
-Epicurus
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Books about Fortune
