Misfortunes Quotes - Page 11

• You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Love You, What Matters

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.430, First Avenue Editions

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• Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Worry

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• It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Mean, Political

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• Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

  Max Ehrmann

  Adversity, Shields, Spirit

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

  Plutarch

  Motivation, Crazy, Inspiration

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• Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Struggle, Hero, Men

  Victor Hugo (1914). “The novels”

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• 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.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Choices, Fortune

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• It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Men, Rights, Wish

  Joseph De Maistre (2011). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment”, Transaction Publishers

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• Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Practice

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.164, Penguin Books India

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• But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Adversity, Men

  "Complete Works of Pliny the Elder".

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• Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

  Christopher Reeve

  Letting Go, Adversity, Simple

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• Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

  Walter Alston

  Baseball, Way, Looks

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• Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

  Og Mandino

  Good Luck, Adversity, Encounters

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• He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Men, Appreciate

  "Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature".

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• The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice, outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation of human safety, and sacrilegiously assumes the prerogative of God.

  Theodore Dwight Weld

  Men, Color, Law

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• There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Long

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.118, Tuttle Publishing

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• Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Advantage

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• We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the trust which we must have in our lieutenants. consequently, it is important to choose men on whom we can rely and to put aside all other considerations. if we have made appropriate preparations, taking into account all possible misfortunes, so that we shall not be lost immediately if they occur, we must boldly advance into the shadows of uncertainty.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, Men, Preparation

  Carl von Clausewitz (2012). “Principles of War”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Book, Suicidal

  Franz Kafka (1993). “Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka”

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• During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.

  Philip Neri

  Forgiveness, Strong, Prayer

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• The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Hypocrite, Heart

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities. Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to pray against this arch enemy without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for an hour.

  Martin Luther

  Suicide, Liars, Suicidal

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• You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?

  Adolf Hitler

  Sacrifice, Islam, Christianity

  "Inside the Third Reich". Book by Albert Speer, p. 115, 1969.

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• Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Reality, Hanukkah, Belonging

  "'Vol de Nuit' ('Night Flight')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1931.

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