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Fortune Quotes

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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

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

It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.104, FastPencil Inc

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

Stuart Wilde (2011). “The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

"The Book of the Simple Way of Laotze: A New Translation from the Text of the Tao-teh-king".

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

"The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer". Book by John Mack Faragher, p. 301, 1993.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Nicholas Ling, John Bodenham (1722). “Wits Common-wealth:, Or, A Treasury of Divine, Moral, Historical and Political Admonitions, Similies, and Sentences: For the Use of Schools”, p.53

If you have a lemon; make lemonade.

Howard Luck Gossage, Kim B. Rotzoll, Jarlath Graham, June Barrows Mussey (1986). “Is there any hope for advertising?”, Univ of Illinois Pr