Top 306 Misfortunes Quotes & Sayings

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

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

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

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

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.

A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford)

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

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

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

Misfortunes should always be expected.

It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.

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

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

Misfortunes make us wise.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.

It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Misfortunes never come singly.

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

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

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

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

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

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

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

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those fortunes and misfortunes work to make us what we become.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

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

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

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.

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

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Happiness, like misfortunes, never comes alone.

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

See your misfortunes as blessings.

Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.