A Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French - Philosopher
June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778

Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune.

Leon Battista Alberti

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

Laozi

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

Laura San Giacomo

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

Philip Sidney

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

Janette Rallison

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

Sophie Swetchine

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.

Menander

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

Hidden in all good fortune is misfortune. And in all misfortune is good fortune. It's never going to stay the same as long you are in the world or unless you die while you are alive and become an enlightened Zen Master. But those people don't exist. When you study their lives, you find that they had the same struggles as the rest of us. It's not so much about being able to always have calm. Calmness isn't just the absence of noise or troubles. It's being able to find calm within yourself when other stuff is going on.

Wayne Dyer

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

Philippa Gregory

There is no greater fortune than having few concerns, no greater misfortune than having many worries. Only those who have suffered over their concerns know the blessing of having few concerns. Only those who have calmed their minds know the misfortune of having many worries.

Zicheng Hong

Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to ascribe what we meet with either to good or ill luck and fortune. There are many events in the world which men look upon as mere accidents, yet all these come by the counsel and appointment of Heaven.

Thomas Boston

Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month.” “Such tenderness for your youngest child,” Hyacinth muttered. “It quite undoes me.