No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf) — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Fortune smiles at a man on occasion, but misfortune rains down from on high with fury and volume. My dad used to… — Nathan Yocum Copy Share Image
“When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.” — Simon Beckett Copy Share Image
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune… — Noel Monk Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.” — Leo Tolstoy 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
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Should misfortune visit the Court, that can only be the result of its continued abuses. If the palace is attacked, that can… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse… — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is… — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on… — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
“Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
The reason why I'm so passionate about turning around failing schools is that children who have the misfortune to go to unsucccessful… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
“Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert to her next disaster. Despite being resigned to a life… — G.G. Renee Hill Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It was a gorgeous calamity in scale, I thought. A lovely misfortune. Immediate and irreversible and very soon forgotten. We needed more… — Lyndsay Faye 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
Its like all the bad stuff you've went through, the people who've disappointed you and the things that didn't go your way,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When misfortune has thrown us a curveball, and the tentacles of desperation are freezing our mind, foreshadowing a hustle-bustle of confusion, we… — Erik Pevernagie 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 it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on…” quote by Zelig Pliskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/zelig-pliskin-22951_anticipation_it-is-hard-to-know-what-is-good-luck-and_34545.jpg)
