No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams. — Martial Copy Share Image
Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune. — Plato Copy Share Image
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself! — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with… — Aristotle 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
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“How tolerable misfortunes appear when they affect only other people! How strong the human body seems when it's another man's flesh that… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is no greater fortune than having few concerns, no greater misfortune than having many worries. Only those who have suffered over… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.] — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes. — Glen Campbell Copy Share Image