People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee Copy Share Image
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune, Where there's no fear of greater ill to come. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“No man can say whether you are happy or not until you die, for no man knows misfortunes may overtake you or… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on… He who, without friends to encourage… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever.… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should,… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the… — Toh Chin Chye Copy Share Image
They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
