It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves. — Nguyen Du Copy Share Image
“It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.” — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity,… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
None of us makes it through this life without problems and challenges—and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished.… — Isaac Deutscher Copy Share Image
At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf) — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
