trouble quotes

“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.”

— Agatha Christie

“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

“I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.”

— Jane Austen

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

— Walt Disney

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”

— Sigmund Freud

“The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.”

— John Barrymore

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Friends show their love in times of trouble. ”

“A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Sweet is the memory of past troubles.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.”

“When trouble ends even troubles please.”

“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”

— Victor Hugo

“Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.”

“That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.' ”

“I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“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

“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

— Groucho Marx

“The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.”

— Henry Miller

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”

— Thomas Paine

“I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”

— Thomas Paine

“The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

“In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.”

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