“ Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 2K
“ There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3K
“ To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune…to lose both seems like carelessness. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.4K
“ A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 647
“ The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. ”
- Benjamin Mays- Copy
- 429
“ All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.6K
“ By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2K
“ Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 219
“ Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ”
- William James- Copy
- 64
“ History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Misfortunes one can endure — they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults — Ah! there is the sting of life. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other — instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
- 390
“ Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great. ”
- Nicholas Rowe- Copy
- 3.3K
“ In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. ”
- John Churton Collins- Copy
- 3.8K
“ War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. ”
- Georges Clemenceau- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, all duties even. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3K
“ The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 580
“ He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
- 3.7K
“ There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 125
“ Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist — it reduces him to his fighting weight. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 3.4K
“ A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 3.2K
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