Misfortune Quotes

498 Misfortune quotes by 347 unique authors

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you… — Nido R Qubein
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. — Max Beckmann
When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune. — Napoleon Hill
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. — Charles Simmons
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind;… — Victor Hugo
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily… — Henry David Thoreau
It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also. — Victor Hugo
The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the… — Ralph Marston
When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune. — Napoleon Hill
Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of… — Kent Nerburn
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. — Jean de la Bruyere
Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's… — Marcus Aurelius
The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it… — Alan Watts
Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune. — Benjamin Franklin
If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course… — Jeff Cooper
We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth… — Frederic Chopin
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. — Agnes Repplier
Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and… — Pope John Paul II
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. — Nicholas Ling
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has… — Epictetus
Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is… — Ryan Holiday
I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same… — Emile Hirsch
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter… — Pablo Picasso
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of. — Winston Churchill

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