Misfortunes Quotes

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

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.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

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

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

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

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

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.