Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own. — Ovid Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support… — Clark Moustakas 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
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite.… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune. — James Ellis 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
There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with… — Samuel Johnson 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
Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon 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
