Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
~By Walt Alston ~
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
~By Aesop ~
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
~By Loretta Young ~
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
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.
~By Moliere ~
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
~By Voltaire ~
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
~By Tacitus ~
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.
~By Voltaire ~
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
~By Elias Canetti ~
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
~By Ovid ~
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
~By Aesop ~
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~By William James ~
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
~By Aeschylus ~
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?
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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.
~By George Mason ~
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.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
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.
~By James F. Cooper ~
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
~By Pierre Laval ~
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.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
~By Virgil ~
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
~By Francis Bacon ~
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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.
~By Socrates ~
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.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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."
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
~By George Mason ~
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
~By Sophocles ~
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
~By Hesiod ~
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
~By Charles Dickens ~
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
~By Harry Browne ~
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
~By Franz Schubert ~
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
~By Edith Wharton ~
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
~By Euripides ~
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
~By Lionel Barrymore ~
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
~By Madame de Stael ~
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
~By Charles R. Swindoll ~
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.
~By Epictetus ~
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
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.
~By Eliza Haywood ~
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
~By Voltaire ~
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
~By Amy Lowell ~
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
~By Aristotle ~
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
~By Sam Levenson ~
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
~By Sophocles ~
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
~By Aristotle ~
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
~By Charles Simmons ~
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
~By Jane Austen ~
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
~By Simone Weil ~
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
~By Paul Valery ~
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
~By William James ~
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
~By Gideon Welles ~
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
~By Washington Irving ~
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
~By Titus Livius ~
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
~By Franz Kafka ~
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
~By Sophocles ~
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
~By Russell Baker ~
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
~By John Hawley ~
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
~By William McFee ~
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
~By William McFee ~
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
~By Pierre Bayle ~
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
Misfortune was my god.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
~By Virgil ~
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