Misfortunes Quotes · Page 13

Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

— Rocko

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

— Leonardo da Vinci

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

— Laurence Sterne

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

— Honore de Balzac

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

— William Hazlitt

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

— Albert Camus

I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

— William Joyce

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

— Mason Cooley

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its…

— Richard Armour

“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

I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats,…

— Og Mandino

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be…

— L. Frank Baum

No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.

— Laozi

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

— Voltaire

[Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the…

— Napoleon Hill

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are…

— Georges Bernanos

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden…

— Michelangelo

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes…

— Thomas Francis Meagher

Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the…

— Daniel Dennett

Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that…

— Michael Josephson

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest…

— Anonymous

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on… He who, without friends to encourage…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This”

— Mark Twain

“Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.”

— John Steinbeck

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

— Margaret of Valois

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

— Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

— Voltaire

How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

— Madame de Stael

“She counted her blessings, rather than her misfortunes.”

— Callie Hunter

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

— Abraham Lincoln

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

— Mignon G. Eberhart

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

— Ihara Saikaku

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

— George Washington

Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune.

— Sophocles

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

— Albert Camus

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

— Aesop

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

— W. Somerset Maugham