The undisciplined mind confuses misfortune with mistakes.
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MICHAEL SCHUMACHER A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
DALAI LAMA XIV We all learn from our mistakes and others misfortune.
CATHY HAYNES We all learn from our mistakes and others' misfortune.
CATHY HAYNES There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disc...
BUDDHA There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disc...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
AESCHYLUS Whether our action is wholesome or unwholesome depends on whether that action or deed arises from a ...
DALAI LAMA XIV Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own privat...
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CRISS DAVIS It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
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ANDREW WEIL Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
JOHN DEWEY Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great playe...
ALICE COOPER The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
W. R. INGE Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is fo...
MARK TWAIN Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.
PITMAN Well-arranged time is the surest mark of a well-arranged mind.
ISAAC PITMAN An indecisive mind
is prone to mistakes
ETC WANYANWU Everything happens for a reason. The daily tragedies and misfortunes are all meaningful events, lead...
FUWA AIKA I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
MARK TWAIN Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
GEORGE HERBERT Don’t keep running the race of life with the same heavy load of mistakes and indecisiveness! You m...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
VIRGIL Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the
unfortunate.
DAVID TUVILL Michael has good instincts and good breaks on the ball. He's not undisciplined. Some of those guys w...
MIKE HOLMGREN It just confuses me. I don't understand anything.
JAMES SANDERS Even though we closed the forest, (Rita) evacuees tried to find shelter in the campgrounds. At Caney...
ERNIE MURRAY Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]
GERARD WAY One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
CLIFTON FADIMAN My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way ...
VALERIE JUNE I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.
E. LOCKHART He will have cruel suffering, loss, injury of the body, heavy affliction, or loss of mind, Or a mis...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to lim...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The truth is we all make mistakes, strong minds rise faster than weak minds..
OLASOT Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere
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FELIX FRANKFURTER Treat others with fairness. You'll live to regret your mistakes. . . . Unless you're an asshole. . ....
MIA RANALDO It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
ARISTOTLE It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
ARISTOTLE It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
ARISTOTLE ARISTOTLE Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
ALFRED JARRY The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to d...
LEE KUAN YEW The man of imagination who is untrained (unlearned, uneducated, undisciplined) has wings and no feet...
JOSEPH JOUBERT Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner pos...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
[Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo....
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity
the scorn even of the base.
[La...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the
great distress of another.
[Lat., S...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
DOROTHY PARKER Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of ...
CHARLES DICKENS Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
AESOP It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of ...
ULYSSES S. GRANT Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
BOYD K. PACKER All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
DR LAURENCE J PETER Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the
misfortunes hardest to bear are those which ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Take her up tenderly,
Lift her with care;
Fashioned so slenderly,
Young and so fair!
THOMAS HOOD One more unfortunate
Weary of breath,
Rashly importunate,
Gone to her death!
THOMAS HOOD But strong of limb
And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far
Outstripping all, comes to every ...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
[Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la ...
JOHN DRYDEN Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
Fallen from his high estate,
And welt'ring in his blood;
...
JOHN DRYDEN I was a stricken deer that left the herd
Long since.
WILLIAM COWPER By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les sou...
PIERRE CORNEILLE Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of
our friends upon them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man,
...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of
misfortunes.
[Lat., Conscientia rec...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
AESCHYLUS Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thoug...
PAUL VALERY Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate m...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is...
LYDIA M. CHILD Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscur...
VICTOR HUGO I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's
misfortunes perfectly like a Christi...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been
unfortunate. for it has never been...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Honour him, dear Symparanekromenoi, for his grey hair and his misfortune.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
ANONYMOUS Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
AMBROSE BIERCE Such a house broke?
So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not
One friend to take his fortune...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
[Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, ...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate
misfortunes. What madness it is in your e...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
[Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) And surely among you is he who would certainly hang back! If then a misfortune befalls you he says: ...
QURAN Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
LORETTA YOUNG Every war is a national misfortune
HELMETH VON MOLTKE Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune
NICHOLAS LING There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortune
SENECA If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Oh, what a misfortune is mine, cried Bradley, breaking off to wipe the starting perspiration from hi...
CHARLES DICKENS Never find your delight in another's misfortune
PUBLILIUS SYRUS We're depicted as being happy about somebody's misfortune.
DON SHULA Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of ...
CHARLES DICKENS Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; b...
WASHINGTON IRVING Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; bu...
PLATO As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat,
And none could be unhappy but the Great.
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MARK TWAIN I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he...
MARK TWAIN There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were...
MARK TWAIN