The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“But if there's one thing I've found in all my muddled wanderings, it's that we learn from our misfortunes just as much… — Deborah Hopkinson Copy Share Image
I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others,… — Rock Hudson Copy Share Image
When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take ones adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now… — Tupac Shakur 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
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time?… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Happy will be those who take a lesson and warning from the mistakes and misfortunes of others and seek, nevertheless, to adopt… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
He goes along just as a water lily Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats Unweighed down by passion… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. — Horace Copy Share Image
There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and… — Nelson Mandela 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
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
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be… — Laozi 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
We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
