“Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Be fortunate even through misfortune. Life IS however you decide it to be. — Ty Boyland Copy Share Image
Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyones misery is their own stupidity and laziness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I've had the misfortune of being overshadowed by other great athletes. I shouldn't say athletes. Sportsmen. — John Part Copy Share Image
“Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living. — A. J. Bowen Copy Share Image
“I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.” — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
“what at first had seemed to be no more than a small bump in the road was turned into a full-scale misfortune” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried… — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
“He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and… — Kaya McLaren Copy Share Image
“When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom… — Simone de Beauvoir 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
“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Misfortune is not fair, fate is not just, but they exist just the same.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
“History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.” — peter adejimi Copy Share Image
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image