Misfortunes Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to hurt you? Behave like that. How would your react to so-called misfortune if you saw its inability to bother you? React like that. How would you think toward yourself if you knew you were really all right? Think like that.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Hurt, Fear

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• Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

  William Cobbett

  Science, Progress, Attention

  William Cobbett (2012). “Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.”, p.62, tredition

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• Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Shadow, Substance

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

  Raymond Queneau

  Wisdom, Culture, Study

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• It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than prompted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it.

  James Madison

  Real, Exercise, Essentials

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

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• They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Inspiration, Persistence

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children; again she fears for the women and children who belong to her children. ... For each of these-whether for loss of possessions, bodily illness, or undesired misfortune-she mourns and grieves no less than those who suffer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

  William McFee

  Failure, Writing, People

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• I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

  Gail Anderson-Dargatz

  Thinking, People, Lawyer

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• Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Believe, Doe, Sin

  St. Anthony Mary Claret “The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret”, TAN Books

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• No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

  Dean Koontz

  Opportunity, Sloth, Degrees

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.42, Bantam

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• This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Solitude, Capability, Incapable

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

  Barry Humphries

  Funny, Laughing, Priceless

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• Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

  Aristotle

  Destiny, Men, May

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Famous Love, Pleasure, Worst

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• If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of those great fortunes. As soon as you realize your helplessness at the mercy of your fate, you are again in despair. Thus the hatred of fate can be generated not only by misfortunes, but also by great fortunes. Your hatred of fate is at the same time your hatred of your self. You hate your self for being so helpless under the crushing power of fate.

  T. K. Seung

  Crush, Hate, Blessed

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• O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Fear, Hate, Blood

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• The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, May

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.41, Xist Publishing

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• At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four years, who at play has got its hair tossed and its clothes soiled. These misfortunes have befallen me in battling with souls. But very soon the Blessed Virgin hastens to my aid: quickly, she takes off my dirty little pinafore, smoothes my hair and adorns it with a pretty ribbon or simply with a little flower... and this suffices to render me pleasing and enables me to sit at the Banquet of Angels without blushing.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Children, Dirty, Flower

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.73, TAN Books

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• Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Indifference, Fortune

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• Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.

  Hugh Mackay

  Leadership, Strong, Australia

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• I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.

  Karl Kraus

  Book, Reading, Butterfly

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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