Inconvenience Quotes

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  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.146, Ivy Books

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• One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.

  Mark Batterson

  Leadership, Christian, Someone You Love

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2014

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• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Government, Political

  Letter to Archibald Stewart, 23 Dec. 1791

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• An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.

  Confucius

  Opportunity

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  I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Change is not made without inconvenience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Project Management, Projects

  'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) preface.

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

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• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Death, Sarcastic

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• Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophy, Differences, Wake Up

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it.

  Siva Vaidhyanathan

  Important, Realizing, Turns

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• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Coping Mechanisms, Problem

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1993.

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• We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we're not in the mood to act.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Fear, Practice

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 04, 2015

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• Every advance that we make for God and for His cause must be made at our inconvenience. If it does not inconvenience us at all, there is no cross in it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Doe, Causes, Crosses

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• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

  Robert Fulghum

  Differences, Coping Mechanisms, Oatmeal

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1991.

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• If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

  Jane Fonda

  Careers, Unexpected, Chosen

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• Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Ease, Action

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”

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• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Heart, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.114, The Floating Press

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• Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Pleasant Surprises, Foolish

  'Emma' (1816) ch. 26 (Mr John Knightley)

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• Lord, help me to see what comes my way as an opportunity instead of an inconvenience.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Opportunity, Way, Helping

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jul 23, 2015

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• False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Real, Sacrifice, Men

  Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division

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• Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Men, Feelings

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• Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Imperfection, Despair, Rooms

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• For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

  Harriet Martineau

  Europe, Class, Suffering

  "Society in America". Book by Harriet Martineau, 1837.

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• If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Light, Consistency, Easy

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• Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

  Bruce Lee

  Mma, Differences, Catastrophe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.221, Tuttle Publishing

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