Misfortunes Quotes

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

See your misfortunes as blessings.

Misfortunes make us wise.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.

See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

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 the world.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!

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 TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.