Misfortunes Quotes - Page 19

• There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Adversity, Unique

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• The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

  Ralph Marston

  Way, Fortune, Handle

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• When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

  Napoleon Hill

  Adversity, Worry, Being Thankful

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.94, Penguin

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• Do not grieve. Misfortune will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere.

  Kent Nerburn

  Death, Past, Men

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• It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Silence, Judgment, Silent

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• Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Honesty, Pain, Humility

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.48, Modern Library

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• Take ones adversity
  Learn from their misfortune
  Learn from their pain
  Believe in something
  Believe in yourself
  Turn adversity into ambition
  Now blossom into wealth

  Tupac Shakur

  Pain, Believe, Ambition

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• The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

  Alan Watts

  Impossible, Process, Fortune

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• Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Good Nature, Prudence

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.173, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• ... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity, for 'a stern king will fall into misfortunes,' and 'one who stops his ears so as not to hear the weak, shall himself cry, and there shall be none to hear him' (Prov. 13:17; 21:13).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Kings, Fall

  John Cassian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of John Cassian (Annotated Edition)”, p.471, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.

  Jeff Cooper

  Warning, Littles, Alertness

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.26, Paladin Press

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• We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone.

  Frederic Chopin

  Love, Inspiring, Eye

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• To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

  Agnes Repplier

  Wise, Fate, Brave

  Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”

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• Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Giving Up, Light

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• Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

  Nicholas Ling

  Ignorance

  Nicholas Ling, John Bodenham (1722). “Wits Common-wealth:, Or, A Treasury of Divine, Moral, Historical and Political Admonitions, Similies, and Sentences: For the Use of Schools”, p.53

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• See your misfortunes as blessings.

  Marshall Sylver

  Blessing

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• An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

  Epictetus

  Wise, Men, Ignorant

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• Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

  Ryan Holiday

  Opposites, People, Tragedy

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.74, Penguin

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• I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

  Emile Hirsch

  Moving, Fall, Blue

  "Interview: The Stars Of Lords Of Dogtown". Interview With Fred Topel, www.ign.com. June 1, 2005.

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• I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Love, Powerful, Sacrifice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Men, Healthy

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• It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Passion, Fate, Justice

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, War, Honest Woman

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence of our being human and being mortal. living in a world of inflexible natural laws. The painful things that happen to us are not punishments for our misbehavior, nor are they in any way part of some grand design on God's part. Because the tragedy is not God's will, we need not feel hurt or betrayed by God when tragedy strikes. We can turn to Him for help in overcoming it, precisely because we can tell ourselves that God is as outraged by it as we are.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Hurt, Healing, Law

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.159, Pan Macmillan

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• It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Fire, Views

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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