(45 quotes found)
“The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for”
Mark Twain
“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Half a calamity is better than a whole one”
Lawrence of Arabia
“Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.”
Virgil
“He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters”
Daniel Defoe
“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice”
Grover Cleveland
“It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man”
Henry MacKenzie
“A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.”
Philip Massinger
