Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
“Lead me into all misfortune. Only by that path can I transform the negative into the positive.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are too busy trying to get through a closed door that we miss the open window beside it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“…young people without arms and legs. They’re the ones who had the fortune or perhaps the misfortune to survive.” — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil but if some god shakes your house ruin arrives ruin does not… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“There are people who from early on reveal a great talent for misfortune. Unhappiness pummels at them like a stoning, every other… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
“A foretold misfortune, when at last it occurs, is ten, is a hundred times harder to endure than one we did not… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Don't get jealous when you see your ex with someone else because we were always told to give our toys to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Want to know who to blame for all of your misfortunes? YOURSELF! Quit blaming everyone for the drama you create in your… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most… — Boethius Copy Share Image
It is hard to remain friend with that person whom u love, because u can't care for them as a lover nor… — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. — Plautus Copy Share Image
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There was, I think, a prevailing impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was the result of the defective moral… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Unimaginative people give up when bad things happen to them, while wise people keep going and overcome their misfortunes. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial Copy Share Image
Misfortunes happen, but don't use it as an excuse to not try something new, or to wither in the face of a… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
When it rains tribulation, it pours mercy. When you are drowning in the seas of difficulty the life boat of ease comes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just because you've had misfortune in your past doesn't mean you have to give up on your future.” — Brandon Sanderson Elantris Copy Share Image
“Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.” — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“When misfortune accumulated, I could feel now, it strafed you to the thinness of a nightgown, sheared you to the sheerness of… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Come with me Tlothy. Lady misfortune always brings together the unlucky.” Said Aissawa laughing.” — Abdelouahab Hammoudi Copy Share Image
“O God! What a misfortune to be born! Born like a mushroom, doubtless between an evening and a morning” — William James Copy Share Image
“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
