Troubles Quotes

Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

Robert Collier

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

John Major

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

Thomas Carlyle

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

James Garfield

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

Samuel Johnson

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

Eugene Ionesco

Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

E. V. Cooke

I think we're in trouble if people don't stop thinking everything that's going wrong is due to accidental opinions.

James Dye

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

William Moulton Marston

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.

Allan K. Chalmers

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

Bishop Beilby Porteus

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

Brigham Young

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

Bowyer Bell

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

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.

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