Top 48 Quotes About Others Misfortunes

#1. See me, how calm I am.
Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others.

Oliver Goldsmith

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#2. I can go through life as a victim, blaming others for my misfortunes, and experiencing frustration over my condition. Or I can choose to be an active agent and do what I can do to bring about a positive change in my life.

Tal Ben-Shahar

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#3. I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

Edmund Burke

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#4. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.

Ralph Alfred Habas

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#5. Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

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#6. Happy will be those who take a lesson and warning from the mistakes and misfortunes of others and seek, nevertheless, to adopt the good they offer. Wisdom, wherever he finds it, it's a believer's goal, because he is more worthy of it than anyone else.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

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#7. Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Thomas More

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#8. Contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

Mignon G. Eberhart

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#9. Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.

James Madison

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#10. We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.

Polybius

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#11. It made sense, Amanda decided. People thrived on the misfortunes of others: her mother was the perfect example of that. Can't see a car accident, she thought, for wanting to climb inside and join in.

Danika Stone

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#12. Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

Jackie Stewart

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#13. How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all ... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, I was wrong.

B.C. Forbes

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#14. We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#15. Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

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#16. One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

Alexander Smith

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#17. Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Publilius Syrus

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#18. The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to me of an American cultural paradox we all grapple with. There's the rampant litigiousness of our society, and the desire to blame others for our misfortunes.

Heidi Julavits

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#19. The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Aesop

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#20. 19. - We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#21. Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

Oscar Wilde

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#22. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Ambrose Bierce

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#23. Lack of wisdom does not make a fool. A fool, in the truest sense, is the man who regards his own misfortunes or those of others as a source of doubt or criticism of the infinite mercy of the Gohonzon.-Josei Toda

Daisaku Ikeda

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#24. For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#25. Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

Shinjo Ito

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#26. To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.

Timothy Winter

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#27. Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

Boyd K. Packer

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#28. We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.]

William Melmoth

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#29. You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it
which is what matters most.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#30. We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#31. Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

Sam Levenson

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#32. Turning oneself to the misfortunes of others is the best way to dispense with personal troubles. Hadn't Lord Byron himself said, "The busy have no time for tears"?

Martha Hall Kelly

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#33. It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Publilius Syrus

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#34. We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

Michel De Montaigne

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#35. Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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#36. My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life. I've paid my debts and no longer need to count pains I've suffered at the hands of others. The misfortunes and the insults. Good luck to those who remain.

Jennifer Niven

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#37. I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.

Nikki Gil

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#38. We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

Deepak Chopra

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#39. We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#40. Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift ... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

Barry Humphries

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#41. Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Marquis De Sade

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#42. Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own.

Ovid

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#43. The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

Saadi

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#44. As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

Scott Adams

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#45. It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Marquis De Sade

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#46. It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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#47. Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop

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#48. Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger than space and older than time. It gives courage against all the misfortunes of life. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Leo Tolstoy

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