Top 34 Quotes About Mishaps
#2. He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
Publilius Syrus
#3. The wish to acquire is no doubt a natural and common sentiment, and when men attempt things within their power, they will always be praised rather than blamed. But when they persist in attempts that are beyond their power, mishaps and blame ensue.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#4. Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.
Luigi Cornaro
#5. Don't be managed by the likelihood of mishaps. Be motivated by the promise of favor!
Carlos Wallace
#6. Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.
Hendrik Tennekes
#7. I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).
Mary Schiavo
#8. We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
Rachel True
#9. He washed up on a desert island, where he incurred the most remarkable series of mishaps that somehow kept turning out for the best. He had no time to keep a journal. He was never rescued.
David Bromige
#10. Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one
Walter Savage Landor
#11. Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.
Carol Ryrie Brink
#13. Such self-referent misgivings creates stress and undermine effective use of the competencies people possess by diverting attention from how best to proceed to concern over personal failings and possible mishaps
Albert Bandura
#14. It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.
Anna Wintour
#15. Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
James Russell Lowell
#16. The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.
Frantz Fanon
#17. Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#19. Life teaches us many lessons daily, even from our mishaps, only if we pay attention
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#20. Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.
Chip Ingram
#21. It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory.
Vladimir Nabokov
#22. It made you wonder: How much of our lives was just luck or good timing, and how much was actually choice? How could it be that tiny serendipitous events could change everything? And if lucky events could change everything, could minor mishaps have the same power?
Aditi Khorana
#23. She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to survive until, one day, you didn't.
Justin Cronin
#24. The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.
Bill Gates
#25. Don't focus on the mishaps; consider the pleasures instead.
Victor LaValle
#26. He was never angry when she made mistakes. He complimented and encouraged her. He shared his own mishaps with a sense of humor that made her less annoyed with her own incompetence. He gave her hope that she could learn, and pride when she did.
Francine Rivers
#27. Don't try to be perfect. Life isn't; no one is. Use mistakes and mishaps as opportunities to grow tolerance and to teach. There is such a thing as happy accidents. And love, love, love and listen, listen, listen.
Teri Hatcher
#28. Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.
William Westney
#29. A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher Hampton
#30. Most people neglect their lives and allow all kinds of accidents, mishaps and misfortunes to happen to them.
Sunday Adelaja
#31. It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!
Penelope Riley
#32. No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
Kelsey Grammer
#33. I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#34. The more disastrous the mishaps the simpler the reviewing task.
Donal Henahan
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