Misfortunes Quotes
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
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If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
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Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?
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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.
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Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
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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.
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What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?
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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
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Prudence replaces strength by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.
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And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
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I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.
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Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
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O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.
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He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.
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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.
