Misfortunes Of Others Quotes

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.

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

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

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

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

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

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

The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an inner oneness and sense of unity with them represents a fundamental revolution in the way we view and live our lives. Therefore, discriminating against another person is the same as discriminating against oneself. When we hurt another, we are hurting ourselves. And when we respect others, we respect and elevate our own lives as well.

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

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

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

Self-help is the best help

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.

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

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying to get rid of that hard feeling when you see other peoples' sufferings; this is not a compassion, but just an instinct will to defence yourself from misfortunes of others. But there is another compassion - real one, that demands for actions, not sentiments, it knows what it wants, and it is full of determination to do everything, what is in human power and even beyond it.

There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.

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

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

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.

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

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

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

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

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

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

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

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

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

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

To me, being Australian is about looking after your mates, taking care of the less fortunate, supporting the underdog and enhancing the spirit that makes all Australians unique.

At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.

A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

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?

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.