Misfortunes Quotes

609 Misfortunes quotes by 400 unique authors

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. — Boris Pasternak
So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE… — Laini Taylor
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. — Henry David Thoreau
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its… — Seneca the Younger
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom… — Simone Weil
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Theodore Roosevelt
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man… — Bertrand Russell
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. — Michel de Montaigne
There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without… — Oliver Goldsmith
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. — Seneca the Younger
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. — Max Ehrmann
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. — Plutarch
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 Inglis Anderson
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are… — Victor Hugo
Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those… — Michael Josephson
It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense,… — Joseph de Maistre
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path. — Dalai Lama
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and… — Jules Verne
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. — Amy Lowell
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. — Unknown Author
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing,… — John Hawley

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