Quotable Quotes (29 page)

—
J
OEY
A
DAMS

 

T
AKING MY PROBLEMS ONE AT A TIME 
. . .

 

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

—
A
SHLEIGH
B
RILLIANT

 

He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

—
Y
IDDISH PROVERB

 

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

—
I
SAAC
A
SIMOV

Foundation

 

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

—
M
ALCOLM
S
.
F
ORBES

The Sayings of Chairman Malcolm

 

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

—
A
NNE
F
RANK

The Diary of a Young Girl

 

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

—
H
ELEN
K
ELLER

 

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

—
J
AMES
B
ALDWIN

 

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.

—
J
OHN
N
EAL

 

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.

—
K
ITTY
O
'
N
EILL
C
OLLINS

 

People need resistance, for it is resistance which gives them their awareness of life.

—
K
ARL
R
ITTER

 

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

—
J
AMES
K
.
F
EIBLEMAN

 

The worst thing in your life may contain seeds of the best. When you can see crisis as an opportunity, your life becomes not easier, but more satisfying.

—
J
OE
K
OGEL

 

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

—
C
LAUDE
M
C
D
ONALD

in
The Christian Word

 

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

—
A
FRICAN PROVERB

 

It is the wounded oyster that mends its shell with pearl.

—
R
ALPH
W
ALDO
E
MERSON

 

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

—
J
OHN
V
ANCE
C
HENEY

 

Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

—
A
LPHONSE
K
ARR

 

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

—
B
EN
J
ONSON

 

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

—
H
ENRY
F
IELDING

 

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

—
W
ALT
S
CHMIDT

in
Parklabrea News
(Los Angeles)

 

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.

—
C
HINESE PROVERB

 

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles—by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. It's the healthiest thing a body can do.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

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

—
R
UDYARD
K
IPLING

Rewards and Fairies

 

Don't meet trouble halfway. It is quite capable of making the entire journey.

—
B
OB
E
DWARDS

 

Simple solutions seldom are.

—
Forbes
magazine

 

No one has completed his education who has not learned to live with an insoluble problem.

—
E
DMUND
J
.
K
IEFER

 

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

—
H
ELEN
K
ELLER

 

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

—
R
EV.
R
OBERT
H
.
S
CHULLER

 

Most problems precisely defined are already partially solved.

—
H
ARRY
L
ORAYNE

Memory Makes Money

 

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

—
A
BRAHAM
M
ASLOW

 

Nothing lasts forever—not even your troubles.

—
A
RNOLD
H
.
G
LASOW

in
Rotary
“Scandal Sheet”
(Graham, Texas)

 

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

—
A
NN
L
ANDERS

 

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

—
D
OLLY
P
ARTON

 

The human capacity to fight back will always astonish doctors and philosophers. It seems, indeed, that there are no circumstances so bad and no obstacles so big that man cannot conquer them.

—
J
EAN
T
ETREAU

 

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

—
W
ILHELM VON
H
UMBOLDT

 

All blessings are mixed blessings.

—
J
OHN
U
PDIKE

 

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

—
R
ALPH
W
ALDO
E
MERSON

 

Life would not be life if a sorrow were sad, and a joy merry, from beginning to end.

—
G
ERMAINE
G
UEVREMONT

En Pleine Terre

 

Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows.

—
L
ITAUISCH

 

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes.

—
M
ORRIS
M
ANDEL

 

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. And swing!

—
L
EO
B
USCAGLIA

 

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.

—
E
DWARD
S
OMERS

in
National Enquirer

 

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

—
S
WEDISH PROVERB

 

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

—
B
LAISE
P
ASCAL

 

For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

—
H
.
L
.
M
ENCKEN

A Mencken Chrestomathy

 

Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out.

—
P
AUL
H
UGHES

 

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

—
N
EIL
P
OSTMAN

 

The first step in solving a problem is to tell someone about it.

—
J
OHN
P
ETER
F
LYNN

 

Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

—
M
ORRIE
B
RICKMAN

 

Untold suffering seldom is.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

 

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three—all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

—
E
DWARD
E
VERETT
H
ALE

 

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

—
G
.
K
.
C
HESTERTON

 

I
T IS THE LOOSE ENDS 
. . .

 

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

—
Z
ELDA
F
ITZGERALD

 

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

—
P
AUL
V
ALÉRY

 

Nothing is really lost. It's just where it doesn't belong.

—
S
UZANNE
M
UELLER

 

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

—
A
.
A
.
M
ILNE

 

More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows.

—
S
PANISH PROVERB

 

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.

—
A
.
A
.
M
ILNE

 

When one finds himself in a hole of his own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of workmanship.

—
J
ON
R
EMMERDE

in
The Christian Science Monitor

 

W
HEN LUCK ENTERS 
. . .

 

When luck enters, give him a seat!

—
J
EWISH PROVERB

 

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

—
J
EAN DE
L
A
F
ONTAINE

 

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

—
W
ILLIAM
S
HAKESPEARE

 

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

It's hard to detect good luck—it looks so much like something you've earned.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

Luck is the residue of design.

—
B
RANCH
R
ICKEY

 

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

—
H
ECTOR
B
ERLIOZ

 

Luck never gives; it only lends.

—
S
WEDISH PROVERB

 

Good luck is with the man who doesn't include it in his plan.

—
Graffiti

 

Thorough preparation makes its own luck.

—
J
OE
P
OYER

The Contra

 

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

—
O
PRAH
W
INFREY

 

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

—
C
HAIM
W
EIZMANN

 

Luck is not chance, it's toil. Fortune's expensive smile is earned.

—
E
MILY
D
ICKINSON

 

One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline—and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck.

—
C
ARL
Z
UCKMAYER

 

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well, too.