Misfortunes Quotes · Page 13

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

— Publilius Syrus

Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

— Mason Cooley

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

— Theodore Roosevelt

[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

— Vincent de Paul

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

— Charles Dickens

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

— Aesop

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and…

— Victor Hugo

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

— Albert Camus

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [ The Science of Second-Guessing…

— Stephen W. Hawking

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed…

— Frantz Fanon

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

— Boris Pasternak

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every…

— Bruce Lee

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order…

— Joseph Addison

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have…

— Philippa Gregory

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who…

— Khalil Gibran

It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good…

— Sam Houston

Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every…

— Anonymous

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

— A. C. Benson

“Don't lament over your lost misfortunes. Move on.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

— Aristotle

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.

— Anna Cora Mowatt

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

— Marquis de Sade

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

— Sophocles

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

— Jackie Stewart

We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.

— Publilius Syrus

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.

— Simon Armitage

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

— Plautus

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

— Honore de Balzac

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

— Tacitus

No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.

— Martial

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

— Plato