Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker
Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions. — Marcus Aurelius
Wishing Good Fortune Quotes
A righteous government is of all the most to be wished for,Bearing of blessing and good fortune in the highest.Guided by the law of Truth, supported by dedication and zeal,It blossoms into the Best of Order, a Kingdom of Heaven!To effect this I shall work now and ever more. — Zoroaster
Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea. — Plato
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
The author wishes to thank: Good fortune, Godiva chocolates, and Slim-Fast — Rachel Caine
Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune. — Theodore Roosevelt
Positive Fortune Quotes
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar
I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus
I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it? — Katrina Kaif
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you. — Fulton J. Sheen
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am very lustful. I am in this fortunate or unfortunate position being bisexual in that I have twice as many people to lust over. So i can get hard on tour. I dont think lust is a sin - People should have sex as much and in as many situations as possible. Then theyd be less uptight. — Brian Molko
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took over were mainly civil servants: people who were serving the Government. — Mahathir Mohamad
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same. — Ralph Marston
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings. — Pema Chodron
Ive been fortunate to be short my entire life. Theres only one position Ive ever had to play, and thats point guard. So Ive always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk. — Chris Paul
Bad Luck Quotes
Victory awaits him, who has everything in order - luck we call it. Defeat is definitely due for him, who has neglected to take the necessary precautions - bad luck we call it — Roald Amundsen
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both. — St. Catherine of Siena
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. — Christopher Isherwood
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. — Don Shula
From the rain, straight under the drainpipe. — Polish Proverbs
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you! — Dr. Seuss
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. — Cormac McCarthy
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life. — Joan Lowery Nixon
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. — Orson Welles
Bad Fate Quotes
Freedom is what we all seek, but it's what we do with that freedom that ultimately defines our character. In the end, a man's character cements his fate, good or bad. — Sonny Barger
The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late. — Daniel Defoe
He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered. — Boethius
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence. — Haruki Murakami
You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it. — Greg Norman
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. — Unknown
Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. — Lee Iacocca
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque. — Albert Einstein
I think I was born to be a figure skater, I think it was fate, and I thank God for letting it happen. — Evgeni Plushenko
Good 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
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing. — Walt Whitman
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one. — William Blake
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour. — Hannibal
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do. — Abraham Maslow
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life. — Joseph Murphy
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate. — Seth Rollins
It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles. — Terry Fox
Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful. — Umera Ahmed
I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am. — Akshay Kumar
Misfortune Quotes
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. — Albert Camus
After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask! — Obafemi Awolowo
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure. — Abdul-Qadir Gilani
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. — Moliere
If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.
The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune. — Ho Chi Minh
Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel with strong trust and he will help you. — John Bosco
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. — Charles Dickens
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. — Aesop
Fortune And Luck Quotes
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. — John L. Bates
I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it. — Paul Newman
If you want to be good at something, you must first be willing to be bad at it.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. — Seneca
Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune. — Ludwig von Mises
I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future. — Nina Dobrev
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life. — Mark Twain
Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, "'Tis luck enough to live. — Henry Van Dyke
Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. — Ovid
But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime. — Ernie Davis
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We're all unlucky in love sometimes. When I am, I go jogging. The body loses water when you jog, so you have none left for tears. — Wong Kar-wai
There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky. — Jamie Redknapp
God does not deem you to be lucky or unlucky... you're mindset does. — Robert Kiyosaki
I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water. — William G. Tapply
I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. — Jonathan Coe
Feeling Unfortunate Quotes
Unfortunately, there’s a pessimistic assumption here that people make that human creativity is bounded, and I think it’s the people who have not built things, who have not created new things from scratch, who seem to feel this the most. — Naval Ravikant
The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises. — John Rosemond
I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you. — Steven Adler
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call. — Rollo May
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. — James M. Barrie
I'm sorry, I'm not very knowledgeable about the plastic model industry, so I can't answer that question. Unfortunately, I can't really make a statement on the plastic scale modeling kits, probably because I'd be eradicated from the industry if I made my true feelings known. — Yoshiyuki Tomino
I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science. — Ahmed H. Zewail
The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions - do not feel constrained by the Constitution. They think they can do whatever they want. — Andrew Napolitano
Tied one on last night. Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor. — George Lopez
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction. — Heather O'Neill
Life Misfortune Quotes
I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories. — Bob Dole
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. — Michel de Montaigne
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. — Michel de Montaigne
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. — Aristotle
May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, and never catch up. — Irish Proverbs
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. — Victor Hugo
Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. — William Cobbett
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. — Thomas Sowell
Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward. — Christopher Reeve
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. — Horace
I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far. — Fumihiko Maki
Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts. — Sheri S. Tepper
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
I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the reading says that I am in the unlucky day, I can think that my troubles are just because of my bad luck. Either ways, I can know the reason of my troubles. — Hiroko Sakai
Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good. — Aristotle
Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable. — Trey Gowdy
Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles.
They are skilled at creating their own chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good. — Richard Wiseman
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. — Jules Renard
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. — Bodhidharma
The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them. — Ernesto Sabato
It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself. — Christina, Queen of Sweden
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 Shirazi
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. — Bodhidharma
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. — Francis Quarles
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. — Jean De La Fontaine
In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in. — Proverbs
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear. — Proverbs
People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world. — Chris Prentiss
Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it. — George S. Clason
The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune. — Alan Watts
To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I've made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you're bound to get a good average. — Walt Disney
North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.' — Conan O'Brien
A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light. — George Lillo
[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
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country. — C. S. Lewis
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all. — Charles De Gaulle
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless. — Herodotus
According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame. — Hannah Arendt
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
And anyway, considering that her mother dies and her boyfriend's spending a small fortune to get high off someone else's bad breath, I'd say Sophie's next in line for therapy. — Rachel Vincent
If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good. — Sallust
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
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
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion. — Bhagavad Gita
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men. — Sophocles
I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine. — Hugh Laurie
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. — Patrick White
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