76 Problem-Solving Inspirational Quotes

In life's intricate tapestry, challenges and obstacles are the threads that test our problem-solving abilities and resilience. Whether we're facing personal dilemmas, professional setbacks, or creative blocks, the way we navigate these hurdles ultimately shapes our journey. To guide and inspire us through these moments, words of wisdom from great thinkers, leaders, and visionaries can be invaluable. This collection of 76 problem-solving inspirational quotes is curated to ignite your inner strength, foster innovative thinking, and provide clarity amidst confusion. As you delve into these profound insights, allow each quote to energize your spirit and propel you toward effective solutions and newfound possibilities.

1. “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

3. “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

4. “I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.” - Frida Kahlo

5. “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

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

7. “Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.” - Noam Chomsky

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

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

10. “We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.” - William Arthur Ward

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

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

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

14. “...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

15. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” - Haruki Murakami

16. “We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.” - Lee Iacocca

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

18. “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

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

20. “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

21. “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

22. “The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.” - Laurence Peter

23. “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

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

25. “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

26. “Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come you couldn't stick with your original idea of paradise? People's lives were a mess.” - Sue Monk Kidd

27. “Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.” - Tamora Pierce

28. “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

29. “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

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

31. “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

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

33. “I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.""Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.” - Jonathan Messinger

34. “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

35. “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

36. “There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang onto someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?” - Danny De Vito

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

38. “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

39. “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

40. “Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.” - Jared Diamond

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

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

43. “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

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

45. “No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.” - Julien Smith

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

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

48. “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

49. “Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,” - E.A. Bucchianeri

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

51. “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

52. “It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.” - Ashly Lorenzana

53. “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

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

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

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

57. “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

58. “I’ve got a question for you… Are you the person who you thought you’d be by now? I know I am not. The fact is that life may not be what you thought it would be by now (If It is, I congratulate you & applaud you) You may feel stuck in a job you don’t like, not making enough money, jobless, or maybe you are in a bad relationship/marriage, or unhappy because you are out of shape…but don’t let that get you down.The key is 2 focus on what you have (Health,Fam,friends etc) instead of what you don’t have. And also in the things that you have done (Finished a Race-College/Got that Diploma/Raise a Family etc) Instead of the things you haven’t done. yetIF where you are now, it’s not where you want to be…know that where you’re going is far more important than where you are now or where you’ve been.Forgive yourself, Accept the current situation & MOVE ON, knowing that from now on you will focus your time & energy on the possibilities & opportunities that lie ahead 4 you in the near future.” - Pablo

59. “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

60. “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

61. “People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.” - Shannon L. Alder

62. “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

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

64. “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

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

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

67. “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

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

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

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

73. “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

74. “It is not the size of our problems but the size of our God that matters most.” - Dillon Burroughs

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

76. “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