The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unimaginative people give up when bad things happen to them, while wise people keep going and overcome their misfortunes. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“But if there's one thing I've found in all my muddled wanderings, it's that we learn from our misfortunes just as much… — Deborah Hopkinson Copy Share Image
When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others,… — Rock Hudson Copy Share Image
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill 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
We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. — Sun Tzu 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
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are… — Polybius Copy Share Image
It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both. — George Sand Copy Share Image
What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education! — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
