Calamity Quotes

Calamity Quote of the day

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run.

For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which we can learn the most.

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared