Misfortune Quotes

498 quotes by 347 authors

There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant… — Sun Tzu
There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take… — Sun Tzu
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to… — Sun Tzu
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka
The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our… — Martin Luther
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the… — Adolf Hitler
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime — Christian Nestell Bovee
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon… — Henry David Thoreau
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill… — Khalil Gibran
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. — Jonathan Swift
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune. — Aristotle
He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife. — Bob Phillips
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. — Baron de Montesquieu
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is… — Henri Poincare
People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it. — William Hazlitt
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — Marcus Aurelius
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. — James Ellis
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all… — Orison Swett Marden
The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence. — Alan Cohen

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