Misfortunes Quotes

• If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Purpose
  • Events
  • Served

• If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Struggle
  • Littles

• Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Misfortunes

• Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Philosophy
  • Overcoming
  • Fine

• Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Fortune
  • Half

• Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

  

  Thomas More
  • Thinking
  • Pride
  • Shining

• Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

  

  Stella Benson
  • People
  • Found
  • Doors

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

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Laughter
  • Misfortunes
  • Little Prince

• Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Misfortunes
  • Crushes
  • Depict

• It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Art
  • Friends
  • Imaginary

• When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Judgment
  • Attributes
  • Dissent

• I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Failing
  • Refuse
  • Tests

• Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

  

  George Washington
  • May
  • Enemy
  • Glad

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

  

  Stendhal
  • Happens
  • Events
  • Misfortunes

• Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Problem
  • Wise
  • Superiors

• We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.

  

  William Melmoth
  • Should
  • Gratitude
  • Reflecting

• Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Different
  • Way
  • Helping

• Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Human
  • Bear
  • Manly

• Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Alone
  • Misfortunes
  • Surprises

• Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.

  

  Anthony Mary Claret
  • Believe
  • Sin
  • Hell

• Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Part
  • Misfortunes
  • Belongings

• Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.

  

  Nguyen Du
  • Law
  • Heaven
  • Source

• Prudence replaces strength by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Needed
  • Occasions
  • Saving

• 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.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • King
  • Misfortunes
  • Disgrace

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