What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee Copy Share Image
Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good… — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. — Agathon Copy Share Image
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The bad thing about terrible misfortunes, the kind that tear us apart and appear to be unendurable, is that those who suffer… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal,… — Joan Crawford 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
