Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About misfortune

When I think of the others’s misfortunes, I forget mine.

When Think Mine Forget
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

Will Profit
  Favorite Make wallpaper

After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

Rain Sunshine Darkness Dawn
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself.

Hurt Learn Lesson Damage
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Fear Life Loss Misfortune
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Acceptance Any Consequences First
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Acceptance Any Consequences First
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Bear Enough Misfortunes Others
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Blessings Reflect Past Every
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Compromise Devastating Lot Misfortune
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Ability Blaming Down Easiest
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Above Great Great Minds Little
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

Any Chief Chief Executive Executive
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Common Contented Depart Equal
  Favorite Make wallpaper

eautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later year…the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Nature Wonder
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Fault Man Misfortune Mother
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Accuse Begun Complete Education
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

Shortens Journey Misfortunes Hearer
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

Misfortune Acquainted Learn
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Yield Misfortunes Boldly Permit
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Indeed History Tableau Crime
  Favorite Make wallpaper

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History Register Crimes Misfortunes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Test Servant Duty Relative
  Favorite Make wallpaper

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Battered Better Down Likes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Anything Bear Bitter Fortune
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You are a dreamer, and that is your misfortune.

You Dreamer Misfortune
  Favorite Make wallpaper

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Arisen Blunders Books Dancing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

Man Endures Misfortune Complaint
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Greatest Misfortune Wise Man
  Favorite Make wallpaper

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Husband Wife Breakable Prosperity
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

Happy Successful themselves Misfortunes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

Appeal Rich Poor brethren Advance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

Born Child Children Dead
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Cannot Clock Fortune Frightened
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

Most hateful Human misfortune Wise man Influence
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is with men and the world we live in. To be a man one must suffer the blows of misfortune.

Rice grain Suffers Men World
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Accord Borne Engine Excellent
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been

Certain point In life Stop blaming People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Bear Cheer Come Good
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Anything Conceal Knowing Misfortune
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Mode Thought Misfortunes Others
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Imitating Vices Others Earned
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Feel sorry Misfortunes Supportable Crossed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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

Pride thinks Own happiness Brighter Misfortunes
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune

The happy Powerful Into exile Surer guarantees
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

The misfortunes Hardest To bear Never came
  Favorite Make wallpaper

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

Misfortunes Life Wrong notions Things
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Refrain from being excited at another's misfortune.

Refrain from Being excited Another's misfortune
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Misfortune Wise Reason Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Misfortune Wise Prosperity Fool
  Favorite Make wallpaper