Misfortunes Quotes - Page 23

• Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

  Seneca the Younger

  Bears, Feels, Humans

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• Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Hands, Effort

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• A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Lying, Future, Men

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• We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Want, Reason, Consolation

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• We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Depression, Patience, Mind

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• Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

  Philip Sidney

  Misery, Fortune

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, p.396, Delphi Classics

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• I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.

  Clarence Thomas

  Thinking, Needs, Tools

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Stars, Moving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.419, Manonmani Publishers

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• For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fall, Men, Credit

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• In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mistake, Suffering, Coward

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• Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kindness, Reality, Men

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• Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Age, Amusement

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• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Character, Good Luck, Adversity

  Lajos Kossuth (1852). “Proceedings, Speeches,&c. at the Dinner given to Louis Kossuth at the National Hotel, Washington, Jan. 7, 1852”, p.3

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• Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Divine

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• Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Race, May, Weakness

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• There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Bears, Fortune, Good Fortune

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.51, Delphi Classics

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• My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Soul, Assets, My Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

  Henrietta Szold

  Religious, Women, Religion

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• I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between those few moments of modest but decisive catastrophe, misfortunes so fittingly flimsy they're almost welcome. The heart doesn't storm that often on its own, so you have to wait for something outside of yourself to get the wrecking ball rolling, and then you're set: you've finally got an impression to make on others - you're in the world distinctly and distinguishable now. It's only by our ravages that we're recognizable to each other at last.

  Gary Lutz

  Writing, Heart, Waiting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Jobs, Men, Wages

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• The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

  Bhartrhari

  Men, Flames, Torches

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• Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Environmental, Care

  Saint Basil the Great, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Letters”, p.190, Aeterna Press

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• Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Helping, Unfortunate

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• The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

  Voltaire

  Hatred, Prosperity, Greedy

  "'Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations' ('Essay on the Manners of Nations')". Book by Voltaire. Introduction, XLII, 1756.

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• History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

  Voltaire

  Historical, Records, Crime

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