I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that… — Dorothy Thompson 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
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition… — Theodore Dwight Weld Copy Share Image
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing… — Saint Basil 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
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
