(169 quotes found)
“Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.”
Aristotle
“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
William James
“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.”
Buddha
“Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”
Napoleon Hill
“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
Walter Anderson
“Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.”
Ovid
“It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
Oscar Wilde
“If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.”
Dorothy Parker
