Quotes
Quotes about Trouble
To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. Hamlet
One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is happening right now in our lives, we are likely to waver and fall. However, if we focus at the end of the rope, where God and Heaven await us, we can see past all of the petty troubles this present life and walk more steadily. We may sometimes still stumble, but if we get back up and train our eyes on God once again, He will guide us to the end.
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles.
Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution--the revolution of rising expectations.
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another. [Lat., Etiam quae sibi quisque timebat Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere.]
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,â Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything does dead wrong; For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always comes with the years, But the smile that is worth the praise of earth Is the smile that comes through tears. . . . . But the virtue that conquers passion, And the sorrow that hides in a smile-- It is these that are worth the homage of earth, For we find them but once in a while.
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Today the journey is ended, I have worked out the mandates of fate; Naked, along, undefended, I knock at the Uttermost Gate. Behind is life and its longing, Its trial, its trouble, its sorrow, Beyond is the Infinite Morning Of a day without a tomorrow.
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If weâre looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldnât test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
