Misfortunes Quotes

609 Misfortunes quotes by 400 unique authors

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition… — Eric Hoffer
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
Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from… — Carol S. Dweck
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
I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. — Bruce Lee
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
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes… — Baltasar Gracian
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
... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity, for 'a stern… — John Cassian
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
See your misfortunes as blessings. — Marshall Sylver

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