Distress Quotes - Page 2

• I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Motivational, Strength

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• Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

  Edmund Burke

  Beauty

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.176

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• You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Prayer, Joy, Needs

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

  Princess Diana

  Positive, Running, Support

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

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• Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Rome, Feet

  William Shakespeare (1841). “Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare”, p.321

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• The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Sight, Bored, World

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• It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Important, Use, Share

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011). “Letters Papers from Prison”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Thinking, Widows And Orphans

  "Commentary: Our tragedy and God's love for orphans" by Steven Curtis Chapman, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2008.

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• The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

  John Woolman

  Peace, Helping, Cry

  John Woolman (1800). “The Works of J. Woolman”, p.22

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• Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

  Princess Diana

  Happiness, Happy, Running

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• All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

  Adolf Hitler

  Passion, People, Torches

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.129, eKitap Projesi

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• It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. I think the best way for children to treasure reading is for them to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Reading, Thinking

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• The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

  Joanna Southcott

  Summer, Land, Corn

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

  Diane Abbott

  Gun, Issues, Causes

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• The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

  Fanny Kemble

  Successful, Government, Order

  Fanny Kemble (1879). “Records of a Girlhood”

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• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

  John Adams

  Nature, Money, Ignorance

  John Adams' Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. August 23, 1787.

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• In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

  Gene Tierney

  Mother, Clothes, Hollywood

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Want, Littles, Action

  "Dunst caught in 'Spider-Man' web". Interview with Paul Clinton, edition.cnn.com. May 1, 2002.

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• I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

  Princess Diana

  Dream, Boys, People

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• Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

  Josiah Strong

  Great Business, Disaster

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• Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

  James F. Byrnes

  War, Recovery, Europe

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• The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.

  Steven Pinker

  People, Childhood, Trying

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• I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

  Arthur Balfour

  Gentleman, Staring

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• It is the business of little minds to shrink.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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