Top 301 Calamity Quotes & Sayings

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

To me, self-description is a calamity.

Calamity was ordained for man.

Hatred is internal calamity that destroys the keeper

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not necessarily make us repent. The essence of repentance is that we cannot be repentant until we confront our own self righteousness with God's righteousness.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

'Calamity Jane' inspired me to be a performer. I still want to be her.

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

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.

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.