Beacons Quote by Honore de Balzac

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

— Seneca the Younger

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian,…

— Honore de Balzac

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your…

— Clarence Thomas

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

— Jean de La Fontaine

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

— William Hazlitt

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the…

— Thomas Mann

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were…

— Simone Weil

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Misfortunes make us wise.

— Mary Norton

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

— Stendhal

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man…

— Lydia M. Child