It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything. — John Candy Copy Share Image
“Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. — Agathon Copy Share Image
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again,… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the… — Ted Trueblood Copy Share Image
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I used to think that you could find peace and it would always be there. And there is a sense of that.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
