Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Embrace happiness and you will never feel helplessness, haplessness and hopelessness. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
“No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse.” — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“That has never been the question. The question has never been to see, how to turn good luck into misfortune, but how… — Ian Hutton Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone’s misery is their own stupidity and laziness.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee Copy Share Image
Those who sacrifice their happiness for others are not less than gods, and that is our misfortune, because a common man cant… — Mak_786_correction By Intazar Copy Share Image
It was my misfortune, loyalty tothe expectations of the lamp will burn sitting on | I'm sitting in there you laid eyes… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind, when they produce neither reflection nor reformation. Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there… — Thomas Paine 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
It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic;… — Ulysses S Grant Copy Share Image
...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Life can be unforgiving sometimes and might make it hard for you to breathe. But always remember that people who tackle life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth… — Anna Cora Mowatt Copy Share Image
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
“When Americans find out I grew up in the tenements, the question they invariably ask me is “how did you end up… — Susan Lynn Peterson Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
“Today's youth has not learned 'to see humor in misfortune,' because they have hardly known what misfortune is. They are being urged… — Julián Marías Copy Share Image
“The bad thing about terrible misfortunes, the kind that tear us apart and appear to be unendurable, is that those who suffer… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
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