Problems Quotes

There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying around.

Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.

Although we are all the same in not wanting problems and wanting a peaceful life, we tend to create a lot of problems for ourselves. Encountering those problems, anger develops and overwhelms our mind, which leads to violence. A good way to counter this and to work for a more peaceful world is to develop concern for others. Then our anger, jealousy and other destructive emotions will naturally weaken and diminish.

The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.

When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.

In all that you are living... As the problem flickers, the solution flickers too.

'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Each problem has a positive side.

The more you gripe about your problems, the more problems you have to gripe about!

We all wish to live a happy life. In addition, we all have the same right to fulfil this goal. And we all have the potential to do so for the simple reason that future is not fixed, it can be changed. Therefore, we should live in hope that we really can overcome whatever problems we face.

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.

A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you.

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

Incompetence is the true crisis.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

I bought a perfect second car... a tow truck.

Your attitude towards problems, difficulties, and adversities is the most important factor in overcoming them.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

For the moment a lot of attention is given to economic concerns, and these problems at hand easily eclipse all others. But the remedies proposed for these problems all come out of outmoded ways of thinking... The remedy? Compassion. The logical feeling that we find in ourselves if we search deeply enough that has to be exercised toward all other living creatures.

If you refuse to be happy until you have no problems or challenges, you will probably never be happy!

You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

If you can't learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we'll always have problems.

Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.

When you encounter some problems, if you point your finger at yourself and not at others, this gives you control over yourself and calmness in a situation, where otherwise self-control becomes problematic.

Is your problem really your problem, or is it your attitude towards the problem that's your problem?

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

To this day, even when I hear about problems, as you've probably noticed, I tend to call them challenges. I don't dwell on them, and I immediately focus on how I can convert the challenge into an opportunity.

Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

If we are demoralized, sad and only complain, we’ll not solve our problems. If we only pray for a solution, we’ll not solve our problems. We need to face them, to deal with them without violence, but with confidence - and never give up. If you adopt a non-violent approach, but are also hesitant within, you’ll not succeed. You have to have confidence and keep up your efforts - in other words, never give up.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

We've all got our own brand of problems. You can be pitiful or powerful. Take your pick.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

When you chop wood, splinters fly

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!

The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray.