Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question. — Henrietta Szold Copy Share Image
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. — Virgil Copy Share Image
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. — Bias of Priene Copy Share Image
Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth. — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always blaming others for your misfortunes leaves you blinded to the fact that you, yourself, might be the problem. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Ordinary people shy away from negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form… — Napoleon Hill 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
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
When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death.… — Francis Bacon 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
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
