Misfortunes Quotes

609 Misfortunes quotes by 400 unique authors

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others. — Thomas More
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite… — Grover Cleveland
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds,… — Sakya Pandita
I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring… — Robert E. Lee
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. — Quentin Crisp
In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee… — Ludwig van Beethoven
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books… — Alan Kay
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland
I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of… — Og Mandino
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou
To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of… — Kamala Markandaya
To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp… — Michael Eisner
It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you… — Emmet Fox
You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing… — Emma Curtis Hopkins
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril… — Winston Churchill
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was… — Sam Houston
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to… — Franz Grillparzer
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. — Tacitus
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a… — Abraham Lincoln
Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap,… — Ted Trueblood
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators. — Lajos Kossuth
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure. — Laozi
There is no greater misfortune than greed. — Laozi
To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of… — Laozi

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