117 Problem Quotes Explained

In life, we often encounter challenges that test our resolve and push us to grow. But amidst these trials, wisdom can be found through the words of those who have walked the path before us. This carefully curated collection of 117 Problem Quotes offers insights and reflections that delve into the heart of life's difficulties, capturing the essence of struggle and resilience. Each quote has been thoughtfully explained, ensuring that you not only read the words but also connect with their deeper meaning. Whether you're seeking motivation, understanding, or simply a new perspective, these explanations will illuminate the myriad ways in which problems can be perceived, understood, and ultimately, overcome.

1. “The best way out is always through.” - Robert Frost

2. “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” - Dalai Lama XIV

3. “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” - Ernest Benn

4. “A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.” - Thomas Fuller

5. “The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.” - Lao Tzu

6. “Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.” - Piet Hein

7. “Every problem comes with a baggage of solutions.” - Santosh Kalwar

8. “The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication” - Susan Sontag

9. “Don't leave life until life leaves you.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!” - Fatima Masood

10. “A heart has problems which mind cannot understand.” - Santosh Kalwar

11. “There aren't any rules to running away from your problems. No checklist of things to cross off. No instructions. Eeny, meeny, pick a path and go. That's how my dad does it anyway because apparently there's no age limit to running away, either. He wakes up one day, packs the car with everything we own, and we hit the road. Watch all the pretty colors go by until he finds a town harmless enough to hide in. But his problems always find us. Sometimes quicker than others. Sometimes one month and sometimes six. There's no rule when it comes to that, either. Not about how long it takes for the problems to catch up with us. Just that they will—that much is a given. And then it's time to run again to a new town, a new home, and a new school for me.But if there aren't any rules, I wonder why it feels the same every time. Feels like I leave behind a little bit of who I was in each house we've left empty. Scattering pieces of me in towns all over the place. A trail of crumbs dotting the map from everywhere we've left to everywhere we go. And they don't make any pictures when I connect dots. They are random like the stars littering the sky at night.” - Brian James

12. “Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.” - Wendelin Van Draanen

13. “Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.” - Steve Maraboli

14. “I finally faced the fact that it isn`t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.” - whitney houston

15. “...you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.” - Cormac McCarthy

16. “We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.” - John Ortberg

17. “Si al final mis problemas no eran solubles, cuando menos serían adulterables.” - Xavier Velasco

18. “Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.” - Steve Maraboli

19. “The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.” - Steve Maraboli

20. “It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.” - Michael Palin

21. “The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.” - Adolf Hitler

22. “Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.” - Dorothy Day

23. “It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.” - Anne Lamott

24. “I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.” - Albert Camus

25. “Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.” - Jodi Picoult

26. “The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.” - Michel de Montaigne

27. “Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.” - J.I. Packer

28. “Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!” - Joyce Meyer

29. “That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.” - Kathryn Stockett

30. “Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.” - George Jones

31. “Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.” - Anthony Robbins

32. “Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life. ” - Joan Lowery Nixon

33. “Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.” - Pseudonymous Bosch

34. “Die Judenfrage,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since the question—as Gertrude Stein once famously if terminally put it—may be more absorbing than the answer. Of course one is flirting with calamity in phrasing things this way, as I learned in school when the Irish question was discussed by some masters as the Irish 'problem.' Again, the word 'solution' can be as neutral as the words 'question' or 'problem,' but once one has defined a people or a nation as such, the search for a resolution can become a yearning for the conclusive. Endlösung: the final solution.” - Christopher Hitchens

35. “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” - Albert Einstein

36. “Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.” - Ashly Lorenzana

37. “Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.” - Virginia Woolf

38. “And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.” - Cecelia Ahern

39. “Velké problémy neexistují. Jsou jen malí lidé.” - Laurent Gounelle

40. “Rena noticed me watching it pass. 'You think they don't got problem?' Rena said. 'Everybody got problem. You got me, they got insurance, house payment, Preparation H.' She smiled, baring the part between her two upper teeth. 'We are the free birds. They want to be us.” - Janet Fitch

41. “I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.” - Toba Beta

42. “Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.” - Nick Hornby

43. “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

44. “In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.” - Haruki Murakami

45. “Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.” - Santosh Kalwar

46. “The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable. ” - Thomas S. Monson

47. “My mother used to tell me, “Things always look worse at night.” For the most part, I believe her. But some of the troubles that keep me from sleeping look just as bad in the morning.” - Carolyn Custis James

48. “People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.” - Marcia Lynn McClure

49. “It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.” - Jeff Lindsay

50. “Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.” - Garth Stein

51. “Maybe things that we turn our backs to arnt rlly there, but its true that they will be there when we turn back around.” - Brandon Anthony Lukstein

52. “The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers usthat we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.” - Susane Colasanti

53. “Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.” - Criss Jami

54. “Be confident in your approach to success in having a better future. Take risks, try new things, become diligent, and find new techniques because in the end you will develop a compelling emotional element.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

55. “Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse.” - Dean Koontz

56. “Did you have a rough month? I did :( but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG” - Pablo

57. “Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today."(Interview, Sierra Magazine, May/June 2005)” - Jared Diamond

58. “People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!” - Jared Diamond

59. “Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.” - Paul Lockhart

60. “A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.” - Paul Lockhart

61. “There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.” - John Green

62. “Faith doesn't get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

63. “This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.” - Omar Khayyám

64. “Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.” - Derek Landy

65. “I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix.” - Sarah Ockler

66. “Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.” - Earl Wilson

67. “I told her running away from your problems doesn't solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you.” - Kyle Beachy

68. “Problems are like top trumps. I have a pretty good card: Adulterous Mum. But Jordana's is still better: Tumour Mother.” - Joe Dunthorne

69. “The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.” - Max Lucado

70. “Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.” - Harry S. Truman

71. “I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.” - Tom Robbins

72. “Maybe the answer to all of his problems was nothing more than a darkened sky and a glittering city, a lofty perch above the world below. It seemed entirely possible that it was all just a matter of setting and location, and Peter wondered why he hadn't thought of it before.” - Jennifer E. Smith

73. “I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.” - Harry S. Truman

74. “When I feel the heat, I see the light.” - Everett Dirksen

75. “What's your problem?""I don't have problems. I solve them.” - John M. Cusick

76. “We have to remember that not every action taken to solve a problem will be free of unforeseen consequences. No matter how good our intentions.” - Rachel Fischer

77. “Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.” - Max Mckeown

78. “Είμαστε εξαιρετικά ανώτεροι και υποχωρητικοί στα προβλήματα όταν δε μας τσούζουν προσωπικά” - Μάρω Βαμβουνάκη

79. “Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.” - Abraham Verghese

80. “Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.” - Sri Chinmoy

81. “What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.” - Olin Miller

82. “I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.” - Idries Shah

83. “We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.” - Thomas McGuane

84. “Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.” - Cat Agonis

85. “معظم مشاكلك مصدرها من داخلك” - Ahmd Justin

86. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences.” - Shannon L. Alder

87. “On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.” - Robert K. Greenleaf

88. “Our lives, as short as they may be, are a test. And one of the biggest tests we can endure is how we respond to those moments when we don’t feel the presence of God in our lives. I believe deeply that one of God’s greatest gifts is to teach us there is a purpose behind every single one of our trials or problems.Treat them as a gift, an opportunity to move forward and draw closer to God. Problems often times compel us to look to God and count on him, rather than ourselves.” - Matt Patterson

89. “It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.” - Veronica Roth

90. “There is no problem too large that God can’t handle,” Mamm assured. “Besides, God showed me a wonderful verse from His Word. Romans chapter eight verse twenty-eight: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” - J.E.B. Spredemann

91. “You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.” - Jack Gantos

92. “It seems only easier when money is involved.” - Anthony Liccione

93. “For something to be great, there has to be some kind of trial or some type of struggle that actually makes it special or valuable to you. Otherwise, anything could be easily taken for granted.” - Hayley Williams

94. “...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.” - Lisa Kleypas

95. “I had to learn what my grandfather and mother knew about some of this journey’s problems. My job was to sit back and let the Lord work it out according to His will. That’s the best way —always!” - Deborah L. Parker

96. “I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.” - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

97. “Tak ada masalah yang terlalu berat, atau yang terlalu ringan. Kalau terlalu berat, tentu kita tak akan bisa menghadapinya, dan bila terlalu ringan, kita takut cenderung meremehkannya” - Yudhi Herwibowo

98. “The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don’t is because my angels keep me standing up.” - Shannon L. Alder

99. “The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.” - Tennessee Williams

100. “I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.” - Elbert Hubbard

101. “It is not about problems, it is about solutions” - Martin Hunter

102. “For every evil under the sun,There is a remedy, or there is none.If there be one, try and find it;If there be none, never mind it.” - Mother Goose Rhymes

103. “Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

104. “We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.” - Matthieu Ricard

105. “a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers.” - Jim Thompson

106. “A hundred pounds! He couldn't remember ever having seen a hundred pounds, all at one time. He found himself envying his father, who had nothing to worry about except the future of mankind.” - John Mortimer

107. “Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.” - J.A. Redmerski The Edge of Never

108. “(Popular singer Eddie Fisher, appearing on This is Show Business, told Kaufman that women refused to date him because he looked so young.) Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars up to twenty-four times the magnification of any previous telescope. This remarkable instrument was unsurpassed in the world of astronomy until the construction of the Mount Palomar telescope, an even more remarkable instrument of magnification. Owing to advances and improvements in optical technology, it is capable of magnifying the stars to four times the magnification and resolution of the Mount Wilson telescope - Mr. Fisher, if you could somehow put the Mount Wilson telescope inside the Mount Palomar telescope, you still wouldn't be able to detect my interest in your problem.” - George S. Kaufman

109. “Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.” - Daniel Clausen

110. “Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead, run away from them, they only get bigger, and they can totally destroy you.” - Elizabeth Newton

111. “God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.” - Nancy Rue

112. “Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves.” - Kurt Vonnegut

113. “All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like the trajectories of countless raindrops in a storm, blending to create a fog of delusion and counter-delusion. Powerful forces and connections were undoubtedly at play, yet they seemed to have no faces and no names, and it was anybody's guess what we - a crowd of deluded no-talents - could have possibly done to offend them. We had been caught up in a season of hideous magic from which nothing could offer us deliverance.("Gas Station Carnivals")” - Thomas Ligotti

114. “Oh, Clay darling, if you had told me you were feeling irritated because of your...problems, I wouldn't have made a fuss." She knew very well the changelings around her could hear every whispered word."Tally." It was a warning growl."I mean it must be embarrassing for you...being that you're such a big man." her tone implied all sorts of things. "Last night was an aberration, I'm sure. And if not, there are always the pills.” - Nalini Singh

115. “Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.” - Dillon Burroughs

116. “We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.” - Dillon Burroughs

117. “In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.” - John Lanchester