Adversity Quote by Mary Norton Download Open image “Misfortunes make us wise.” — Mary Norton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adversity Misfortunes Wise
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes! — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“It is not our difficulties or our suffering alone that makes us wise. It is what we add to them--patience, perseverance, compassion, courage, love.… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
“I don't think human beans are all that bad-" "They're bad and they're good," said Pod; "they're honest and they're artful- it's just as… — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
“She learned a lot and some of the things she learned were hard to accept. She was made to realize once and for all… — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
“It's so awful and sad,” she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, “to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.” — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them. — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
“Oh," he said again and picked up two petals of cherry blossom which he folded together like a sandwich and ate slowly. "Supposing," he… — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on.… — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
“The child is right," she announced firmly. Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right,… — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
“Homily would renew it at intervals when it became available upstairs, but since Aunt Sophy” — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
“As people, other people, living in a house who . . . borrow things?" Mrs. May laid down her work. "What do you think?"… — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
“An inn, of course, was a place you came to at night (not at three o'clock in the afternoon), preferably a rainy night—wind, too,… — Mary Norton Copy Share Image
We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East. — Steve Nash Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Friction is necessary. Ease of life leads to complacency and the atrophy of the human will and spirit. Within our struggles lives our strength,… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — James Buckham Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Struggles are not associated to a particular people or creed, everyone struggles, not for the same reasons, but each has a personal struggle at… — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
