Distress Quotes

• The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Fortitude is a great help in distress.

  Plautus

  Helping, Fortitude

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  In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

  Robert E. Lee

  Strength, Bible, Failure

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• To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Inspiring, Forgiveness, Compassion

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.297

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. 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

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

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• Religion gives a dignity to distress.

  James Hervey

  Giving, Religion, Dignity

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.33

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• Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

  John Mayer

  Emotional, Things In Life, Kind

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• I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with the utter collapse of my being. I did not care anymore for living or dying. I was alone in my distress and desolation. But as I sat sadly on the ground, The sun reached out his hand to me and touched my face. And so my healing began.

  Marjorie Pizer

  Healing, Hands, Funeral

  Marjorie Pizer (2014). “To You the Living”, p.52, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it.

  Swami Parthasarathy

  World, Relate

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• You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Hurt, Pain, Understanding

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• Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Joy, Sorrow, Helping

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• Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

  Herbert Spencer

  Adversity, Hard

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• There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

  Victor Hugo

  Sunrise, Depth, Critical Moments

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5886, Delphi Classics

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• In times of distress strengthen your heart.

  Samuel ibn Naghrillah

  Heart, Bravery

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• Your emotions are your inner guidance system. They alone will let you know whether you are living in an environment of biochemical health or in an environment of biochemical distress. Understanding how your thoughts and your emotions affect every single hormone and cell in your body, and knowing how to change them in a way that is health-enhancing, gives you access to the most powerful and empowering health-creating secret on earth.

  Christiane Northrup

  Life, Powerful, Creating

  Christiane Northrup (2001). “The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change”, Bantam

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• It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

  Peter O'Toole

  Perfect, Return, Marmalade

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  The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Paine (1817). “The Political Works of Thomas Paine: In Two Volumes”

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• Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

  Stella Gibbons

  Introspection, Interest, Command

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• If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

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• I love those who can smile in trouble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Strength, Smile

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• When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Moving

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 02, 2014

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• Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Anxiety, Mind

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• My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Grateful, Parent, Suffering

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• A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Trifles, Console

  "Pensées".

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• The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

  Thomas Malthus

  Rich, Economy, Poor

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.55, Penguin UK

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