Distress Quotes

406 quotes by 328 authors

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it. — Brigitte Bardot
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so… — John Adams
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the… — Ezra Taft Benson
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater… — William Blake
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. — Edmund Burke
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were… — Spencer W. Kimball
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. — Confucius
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress. — Sun Tzu
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.… — Dalai Lama
Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work becomes… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And… — Sun Tzu
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. — Baron de Montesquieu
Nationalist Socialist Germany wants peace because of its fundamental convictions. And it wants peace also owing to the realization of the simple primitive fact that… — Adolf Hitler
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the… — Henri Nouwen
If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with… — Hugh Prather
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious… — Charles Caleb Colton
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of… — Karl Marx
Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. — Tom O'Connor

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