Misfortunes Quotes

609 Misfortunes quotes by 400 unique authors

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
I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for… — Amandla Stenberg
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
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six… — Adolf Hitler
God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence… — Harold S. Kushner
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be… — James F. Cooper
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. — Stefan Zweig
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and… — Steven Pinker
Misfortune is the test of a person's merit. — Seneca the Younger
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of… — Boethius
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself… — Bertrand Russell
Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them,… — Vincent de Paul
[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we… — Vincent de Paul
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must… — Vincent de Paul
[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future. — Vincent de Paul
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we… — Victor Hugo
They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's… — Markus Zusak
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. — Albert Camus
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but… — Robert Greene
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith

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