Misfortune Quotes

498 Misfortune quotes by 347 unique authors

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends. — Louisa May Alcott
Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue. — Charles R. Swindoll
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny. — Gilbert Gottfried
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. — Ulysses S. Grant
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. — Charles Dickens
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged… — Benjamin Disraeli
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. — Epicurus
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. — Epicurus
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend? — Euripides
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. — Napoleon Hill
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. — Washington Irving
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. — William James
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. — Franz Kafka
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune… — Alphonse Karr
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. — W. Somerset Maugham
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all… — Bryant H. McGill
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came. — Christopher Morley
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to… — Blaise Pascal
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. — Laurence J. Peter
A man endures misfortune without complaint. — Franz Schubert
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. — Franz Schubert
No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste… — Junior Seau
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. — Frank Sinatra
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we… — Eliot Spitzer

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