Misfortunes Quotes
609 Misfortunes quotes by 400 unique authors
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
— Lydia M. Child
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
— Deepak Chopra
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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes…
— Walter Anderson
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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
— Aesop
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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
— Pliny the Elder
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Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a…
— Christopher Reeve
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
— Walter Alston
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Misfortunes make us wise.
— Mary Norton
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Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
— Og Mandino
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He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is a misfortune not…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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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
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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
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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
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We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of…
— Franz Kafka
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