Misfortunes Of Others Quotes

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  Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wise

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.36

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• The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

  Aesop

  Happiness, You Make Me Happy, Comforting

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• The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an inner oneness and sense of unity with them represents a fundamental revolution in the way we view and live our lives. Therefore, discriminating against another person is the same as discriminating against oneself. When we hurt another, we are hurting ourselves. And when we respect others, we respect and elevate our own lives as well.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Hurt, Views, Oneness

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Injury, Misfortunes

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• Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

  Thomas More

  Pride, Thinking, Shining

  Thomas More (2009). “Utopia”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.

  Nikki Gil

  Celebrate, Raised, Misfortunes

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• Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

  Ovid

  Able, Bears, Misfortunes

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

  Voltaire

  Motivational, Inspiration, Adversity

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.5643, e-artnow

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Philosophy, Bears, Equanimity

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Nothing...Except My Genius”, p.46, Penguin UK

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strength, Enough, Endure

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• When all is said and done, more is said than done.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Football, College

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2011

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• Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Successful, Light, Misfortunes

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1710, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.

  Michael Shannon

  People, World, Fortune

  Source: collider.com

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• Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Names, Volunteer

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Aviation, Good Things, Caution

  "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolbever, 1881.

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Tears, Shed

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1942). “Cicero: De oratore ...”

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• Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

  Jackie Stewart

  Good Luck, Cases, Luck

  "Reflections on Success". Book by Martyn Lewis, 1997.

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• To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique.

  Steve Waugh

  Helping Others, Unique, Support

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• A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Honor, Mind

  Henry Fielding (1903). “The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”

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

  Aristotle

  True Friend, True Life, Comfort

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

  Mignon G. Eberhart

  Doe, Add, Trouble

  Mignon G. Eberhart (2016). “Five Passengers From Lisbon”, p.59, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

  Scott Adams

  Laughing, Exception, Ifs

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.186, Penguin

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Spring, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Delight, Bittersweet, Kind

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