Bad Fortune Quotes

• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

  →

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational   Uplifting   Faith  

  1344

• Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

  →

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Fall   Fortune   Our Lives  

  3808

• All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

  →

  Robert Collier

  Perseverance   Business   Good Luck  

  Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.220, Courier Corporation

  1142

• But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.

  →

  Mary E. Pearson

  Children   Destiny   Wind  

  2512

• Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

  →

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fortune   Found   Good And Bad  

  1463

• [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

  →

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking   Example   May  

  4947

• The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

  →

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational   Strong   Business  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

  1161

• When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child

  →

  Johan Huizinga

  Children   Distance   Sadness  

  3674

• Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

  →

  Aristotle

  Friends   Good Friend   Fortune  

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

  4312

• A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.

  →

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity   Character   Men  

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.105, Penguin

  485

• Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on." "Oh, for heaven's sake," she muttered. "I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but—" He wouldn't let her continue. "A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month

  →

  Julie Garwood

  Running   Fall   Swear To God  

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

  2492

• We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.

  →

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fortune   Knows   Bad Fortune  

  954

• Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

  →

  Terry Pratchett

  Real   Imagination   Fortune Telling  

  3463

• The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

  →

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men   Fortune   Disposition  

  2440

• You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

  →

  Cormac McCarthy

  Good Luck   Bad Luck   Fortune And Luck  

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.267, Vintage

  2661

• You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.

  →

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Good Life   War   Fate  

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.63, Bottom of the Hill

  2207

• I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

  →

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational   Life   Thinking  

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  1247

• Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

  →

  Sophocles

  Men   Looks   Fortune  

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

  4816

• The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

  →

  Saadi

  Heaven   Earth   Faces  

  5142

• Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.

  →

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother   People   Looks  

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

  2604

• Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

  →

  Virgil

  Patience   Determination   Philosophical  

  3155

• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  →

  William Shakespeare

  Business   Good Luck   Best Of Luck  

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

  513

• We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.

  →

  Joshua Prager

  Adventure   Community   And Love  

  1320