Trouble Quotes

Most popular trouble quotes

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and, when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you.  You cannot defeat me." - Ann Landers quote.
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and, when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you.  You cannot defeat me."

advice advisory

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. - Elbert Hubbard quote.
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
There are two insults which no human being will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. - Sinclair Lewis quote.
There are two insults which no human being will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

sense of humor

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

opportunity

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? - John Keats quote.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

pain

I have learnt that a man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. - Chinua Achebe quote.
I have learnt that a man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice. - Aristotle quote.
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice.
In larger things we are convivial:
What causes trouble is the trivial.
Troubles are but so many instructors to teach men wit. - Augustine of Hippo quote.
Troubles are but so many instructors to teach men wit.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard Baruch quote.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
— The Bible—Job 5–7

biblical

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles. - Phyllis Bottome quote.
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
She would take any amount of trouble to avoid trouble. - Willa Cather quote.
She would take any amount of trouble to avoid trouble.
Never go out to meet trouble.  If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. - Calvin Coolidge quote.
Never go out to meet trouble.  If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
In trouble to be troubled,
Is to have your trouble doubled. - Daniel Defoe quote.
In trouble to be troubled,
Is to have your trouble doubled.
Daniel Defoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky quote.
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. - Euripides quote.
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement—discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. - F. Scott Fitzgerald quote.
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement—discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman quote.
To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one. - Oliver Goldsmith quote.
Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one.

wisdom

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in. - E. W. Howe quote.
The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - William Ralph Inge quote.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

worry

Troubles are like babies, and grow with nursing. - Douglas Jerrold quote.
Troubles are like babies, and grow with nursing.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. - Carl Jung quote.
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Life is trouble. - Nicholas Kazantzakis quote.
Life is trouble.
No one recommends trouble, but it comes, an uninvited guest for whom room must be made.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors. - Rudyard Kipling quote.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
Trouble is a great equalizer.  No matter what our differences, in time of trouble the differences fade, and we become brothers and sisters. We want to reach out and help one another. - Ann Landers quote.
Trouble is a great equalizer.  No matter what our differences, in time of trouble the differences fade, and we become brothers and sisters. We want to reach out and help one another.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit; for all things must bow to Nature's law, and soon enough you must vanish into nothingness. - Marcus Aurelius quote.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit; for all things must bow to Nature's law, and soon enough you must vanish into nothingness.
When one has an insatiable appetite for trouble all sorts will serve. - Kathleen Noriss quote.
When one has an insatiable appetite for trouble all sorts will serve.
If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. - P. J. O'Rourke quote.
If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine quote.
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
— American proverb

American proverbs proverbs

Never meet trouble half-way.

proverbs

Trouble shared is trouble halved. - Dorothy L. Sayers quote.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? - William Shakespeare quote.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted. - Sophocles quote.
Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.
Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible.
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. - Edith Wharton quote.
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox quote.
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.

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