Problems Quotes

Endure the pain, overcome the hurt.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Thomas Bernhard

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

Sojourner Truth

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Dag Hammarskjöld

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect endeavoring to ignore nothing if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

Ben Ames Williams

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.

Confucius

No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.

William J. H. Boetcker

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything it's value.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Can it be that man is essentially a being who loves to conquer difficulties a creature whose function is to solve problems?

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Difficulties exist to be surmounted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

When you can't solve the problem manage it.

Dr. Robert H. Schuller

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Charles Caleb Colton

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser

We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods and know nothing about accomplishments!

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when of course you have to be someone more.

The human mind prefers to be spoonfed with the thoughts of others but deprived of such nourishment it will reluctantly begin to think for itself- and such thinking remember is original thinking and may have valuable results.

Agatha Christie

I'll have to as you say take a stand do something toward shaking up that system. ... Despair ... is too easy an out.

Half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Lock

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.

Margaret A. Robinson

There is no movement without our own resistance.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

William F. Halsey

The best way out of a problem is through it.

Anonymous

Life has no smooth road for any of us and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend "over steep ways to the stars " fulfills itself.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Corrie ten Boom

When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Socrates

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

Charles F. Kettering

It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.

G.K. Chesterton

If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known (b) what is unknown and (c) what is sought.

Every path has its puddle.

English Proverb

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Dr. Frank Crane

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.

Jeannette Rankin

When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined courageous and hard-working. Never be fainthearted. Be resolute but never bitter.... Permit no one to dissuade you from pursuing the goals you set for yourselves. Do not fear to pioneer to venture down new paths of endeavor.

Ralph J. Bunche

When you approach a problem strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice assemble and learn the facts of the situation make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest and then stick to it.

No matter how big and tough a problem may be get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst so long as you don't do it the same way twice you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

George F. Nordenholt

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Carl Jung

There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.

Clare Boothe Luce

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.

Bernard M. Baruch

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

Thomas Bernhard

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again.

Sojourner Truth

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

Dag Hammarskjöld

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