Misfortunes Quotes · Page 15

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

— Raymond Queneau

What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune?

— Robert G. Allen

The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

— Luc de Clapiers

“Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone”

— Mario Puzo

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

— Agnes Repplier

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

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end…

— Victor Hugo

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

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

— Seneca the Younger

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

— Isabel Allende

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

— Alexander Smith

My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God.…

— Ellen G. White

It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be…

— Emmet Fox

When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the…

— Laozi

“Ordinary people shy away from negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great…

— Ryan Holiday

One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing…

— Marie Corelli

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

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again,…

— Emile Hirsch

The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and…

— Richard Savage

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

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

— Albert Camus

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

— Frank Sinatra

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

— Madame de Stael

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

— Anonymous

I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo…

— James Joyce

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.

— Aristotle

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you…

— Khalil Gibran

Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may…

— Christopher Paolini

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

— Bertolt Brecht

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

— George MacDonald

“Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known…

— James Madison

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

— George Washington

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one…

— Soren Kierkegaard