...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to… — Livy Copy Share Image
We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth. — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to… — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and… — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. — Bertrand Russell 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
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
