6 quotes
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
It is a common proverb, beauteous princess, that diligence is the mother of good fortune.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness — its opposite — never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605)
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
The Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts & Strange Stories (2008)