50 Quotes About Overcoming Trouble

In life, everyone encounters obstacles, whether minor setbacks or significant challenges that test our resilience. At these moments, words of wisdom can offer comfort and guidance, helping us to navigate through tough times. Quotes, with their ability to encapsulate deep truths and insights succinctly, can be a powerful tool in reshaping our mindset and motivating us to persevere. In this collection, we've gathered 50 of the most inspiring quotes about overcoming trouble. Each quote serves as a reminder that adversity can be transformed into strength, and challenges, no matter how daunting, can be overcome. Dive into these words of encouragement, and let them bolster your spirit as you face whatever life throws your way.

1. “Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

2. “If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.” - Cormac McCarthy

3. “A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.” - Robert A. Heinlein

4. “I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.” - Lev Grossman

5. “Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book 'I Know Who You Are!” - Mariam and Fatima Masood

6. “the more you stared up crap the more it's going to smell (/)” - Mary Sumner

7. “I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.” - James Patterson

8. “There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble."(The Mill)” - Anton Chekhov

9. “Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?” - Hughes

10. “I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.” - Karl Lagerfeld

11. “Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there?Should he not seek his own country?His miseries are his ally; they urge him on. Let them grow, if need be. But do not forsake the secret of life; do not despise those kingly desires. We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.” - John Eldredge

12. “In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.” - Dennis Hopper

13. “You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job.” - Tamora Pierce

14. “The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.” - Santosh Kalwar

15. “Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.” - Jennifer Crusie

16. “When people whom trouble is not a problem find themselves in a predicament, they are woefully unprepared... I, however, considered myself a professional.” - Nancy Wolfe

17. “No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.” - Holly Black

18. “The opportunity was too perfect to miss. Harry crept silently around behind Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle, bent down, and scooped a large handful of mud out of the path.'We were just talking about your friend Hagrid,'Malfoy said to Ron. 'Just trying to imagine what he's saying to the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures. D'you think he'll cry when they cut off his hippogriff's—'SPLAT.Malfoy's head jerked back as the mud hit him; his silverblond hair was suddenly dripping in muck.” - J.K. Rowling

19. “Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.” - Criss Jami

20. “We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how” - Dave Barry

21. “Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.” - Nicholas Sparks

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

23. “A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.” - Patrick Rothfuss

24. “There," she said, waving her hands at the corridor. The expression of delight on her face was a very bad thing to see."You're wrong! You don't know where your parents are, do you?" she turned and looked at Coraline. "Now," she said, "you're going to stay here for ever and always.” - Neil Gaiman

25. “Want to get in trouble with me, Carlos?” - Simone Elkeles

26. “I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the reading says that I am in the unlucky day, I can think that my troubles are just because of my bad luck. Either ways, I can know the reason of my troubles.” - Hiroko Sakai

27. “my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far better to live this gambling life than living in boring average ...they at least make my art more interesting” - Hiroko Sakai

28. “...he was forty bushels beyond bamboozled.” - Chuck Klosterman

29. “The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in..” - Taylor Swift

30. “Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.” - Vincent Van Gogh

31. “Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women."[Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]” - Nora Ephron

32. “Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?” - Ken Follett

33. “He was impossibly gorgeous. I had trouble taking it in at times” - Sylvia Day

34. “When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; When everything is silent and perfect, There is just perfection and nothing To fill the air.” - Dejan Stojanovic

35. “Because it's my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever.” - Catherynne M. Valente

36. “And no matter what anybody says, I don't believe all this trouble started when women got the vote. As far as I'm concerned, it goddamn well got started when you taught each other how to read.” - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

37. “He held up his hands in surrender. “I’m not here to start trouble. I am just doing some research for my thesis.”“If you don’t get out of this bar, you are going to be writing your thesis via Ouija board.” - Jessica Fortunato

38. “I'll get right on right about you, you've got trouble right about now, you've got trouble right about now.” - Tegan Quin

39. “I was deep in the poo poo dungeon.” - Sam Cheever

40. “Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.” - Anne Lamott

41. “The light clicks on, right above my head, drawing my eyes to it. The moment I look up, squinting, I know I’m in trouble. There isn’t even a guy leaning against the corner, trying to play bad cop. There isn’t a guy smiling and offering me a cup of coffee. There’s just one man in a suit, with a folder in his arms that he isn’t looking at. He’s looking at me, raising his eyebrows and looking as if I have a note stuck to my forehead that I haven’t noticed yet.” - Israel Elysium

42. “There's a difference between driving and texting. When your driving your eyes have to be open and on the road watching the cars around you, road signs, and traffic lights. Along with your mind on the road and destination. Which means you are multitasking. When your texting your eyes are on your cell phone screen and key pad. Along with your mind on what your going to say next. So how can you do both? Please stop!” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

43. “It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.” - Anne Brontë

44. “Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.” - Alice Hoffman

45. “Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

46. “Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn.” - Steve Goodier

47. “You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself” - Georgette Heyer

48. “How upset is she?” “Let me put it this way,” his brother began, “All the shit you’ve shoveled from stalls in your life is nothing compared to how deep you’re in it now.” - Lindsey Brookes

49. “Let us not see today's troubles as a reason to give up; let us see them as an opportunity for God to deliver.” - Dillon Burroughs

50. “The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.” - Steven Pressfield