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Discover 43 inspirational trouble quotes and sayings that can motivate you during hard times and help you deal with all the messiness they cause. There are periods when life gets harder and troubles seem to chase us one after the other. In these difficult times, the attitude you choose to have toward them will play the most important role in our struggle to overcome them.
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43 Inspirational Trouble Quotes and Sayings
Below are inspiring, thoughtful, and sometimes wry quotes about trouble, adversity, conflict, and how to face or avoid it:
10 Favorite Quotes about Trouble in Life
“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.” — Josh Billings
“Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles.” — Charlie Chaplin
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Robert H. Schuller
“Life is funny. If you don’t laugh, you’re in trouble.” — Taylor Haw
“The trouble is, you think you have time.” — Buddha
“Our best decisions are often what we choose not to get involved in.” — Doug Cooper
“If it troubles us it must be that we find the trouble in ourselves.” — John Steinbeck
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.” — Leonardo da Vinci
“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.” — Montesquieu
“The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, but that there are so many answers” — Ruth Benedict
In Times of Trouble Quotes
“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides
“Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.” — Euripides
“We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.” — Irene Hunt
“I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” — Katie McGarry
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” — Thomas Paine
“The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist vanishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.” — Steven Pressfield
“…nearly everything great owes its existence to “despites”: despite misery and affliction, poverty, desolation, physical debility, vice, passion, and a thousand other obstacles.” — Thomas Mann
“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.” — Paul Harvey
“We all make choices. But in the end choices make us”. — Andrew Ryan
Good Trouble Quotes
“Trouble is a great educator.” — Euripides
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” — Jean de La Bruyère
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” — Lou Holtz
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.” — Epicurus
“When trouble comes, it comes not single spies, but in battalions.” — William Shakespeare
“Let your troubles be as thin as smoke and your dreams be as wide as the ocean.” — Rabindranath Tagore
“Get in trouble. Good trouble. Necessary trouble.” — John Lewis
“Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” — John Lewis
“You must be prepared to get into good trouble, to stand up, speak out, and act.” — John Lewis
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” — Benjamin Franklin
Double Trouble Quotes
“If you run away from a threatened danger you will double the danger; meet it promptly and without flinching and you will reduce it by half.” — Winston Churchill
“It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.” — Niccolò Machiavelli
“To borrow trouble for yourself is one thing; to lend it to your neighbors is another.” — Rudyard Kipling
“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.” — George Washington
“The trouble with trouble is it starts out of fun.” — Lauren Lee
Stay Out of Trouble
“It is easier to stay out than get out.” — Mark Twain
“Never trouble trouble ’til trouble troubles you.” — American Proverbs
“Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm’s way.” — Ovid
“Stay out of trouble by keeping your conscience clear and your feet on the path you believe in.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It’s much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.“ — Warren Buffet
Relationship in Trouble Quotes
“Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.” — Wayne Dyer
“The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.” — Peter De Vries
“If your relationship is about extracting something out of somebody.. there will be constant trouble.” — Sadhguru
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something.” — Tony Robbins
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