Trouble Quotes

• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Peace

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.96, Penguin

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• That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

  "Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever". Book by Jeff Kurtti, October 7, 2008.

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  The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Integrity, Yoga

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• Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Fashion, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.58

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• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

  William Ralph Inge

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

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• Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Gratitude, Adversity, Blessing

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  If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

  Robert Jordan

  Wot

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.271, Macmillan

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  The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House

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• The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Enemy, Favors, Embrace

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• Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Religion, Thank God

  Norman Vincent Peale (1988). “How to Cope With Ten of Life's Toughest Problems”

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• This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Men, Faces, Admiration

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• Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

  William Arthur Ward

  Wise, Time, Learning

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• It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

  Brigham Young

  Wise, Forget

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• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Apr. 1934. A similar remark, attributed to an anonymous octogenarian, appears in the Washington Post, 11 Sept. 1910. See Jefferson 42

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• If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

  Bob Hope

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

  James A. Garfield

  Presidential, Anticipation, Worst

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• You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Needs, Asking

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Positive, Inspiration

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• Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Darkness, Moments

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• Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

  Voltaire

  Earthquakes, Political, Politics

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• Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Positive, Work, Adversity

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• One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Fun

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• When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

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