Top 1200 Misfortunes Of Others Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

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

See your misfortunes as blessings.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.

A person who respects others is respected by others in return. Those who treat others with compassion and concern are protected and supported by others. Our environment is essentially a reflection of ourselves

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between those few moments of modest but decisive catastrophe, misfortunes so fittingly flimsy they're almost welcome. The heart doesn't storm that often on its own, so you have to wait for something outside of yourself to get the wrecking ball rolling, and then you're set: you've finally got an impression to make on others - you're in the world distinctly and distinguishable now. It's only by our ravages that we're recognizable to each other at last.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single.

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

Misfortunes should always be expected.

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

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

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.

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

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

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

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

Misfortunes never come singly.

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.

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

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

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

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.