Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the ‘courage of their convictions’. Coventry Patmore
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. Quentin Crisp
There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster. Richard Bach
Meet success like a gentleman and disaster like a man. F E Smith (Lord Birkenhead)
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth. Malcolm Muggeridge
There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. Winston Churchill.
It’s queer how it is always one’s virtues that precipitate one into disaster. Rebecca West
Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Bertrand Russell