If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.
—George S. Patton (1885–1945) American Military Leader
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
—Brendan Behan (1923–64) Irish Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
—Henry J. Kaiser (1882–1967) American Industrialist
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
—Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
—Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
—Harold Kushner (1935–2023) American Rabbi, Author
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator
The man who has no more problems to solve is out of the game.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
—Warren Bennis (1925–2014) American Business Academic, Author
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
—Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848–1921) Scottish Congregationalist Minister, Theologian
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
—Duke Ellington (1899–1974) American Jazz Pianist, Composer, Bandleader
There are three ways you can get to the top of a tree: 1) sit on an acorn 2) make friends with a bird 3) climb it.
—Anonymous
You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create.
—Mike Murdock
Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
—William of Ockham (1288–1347) English Philosopher, Theologian
Few can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian Philosopher
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
—H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) American Journalist, Literary Critic
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
—John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist
All the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insolvable. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.
—Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
—Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Success is relevant to coping with obstacles… but no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.
—Unknown
It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
—Edward de Bono (1933–2021) Maltese-British Psychologist, Writer
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
—Richard Bach (b.1936) American Writer, Aviator
Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
—Denis Waitley (1933–2025) American Speaker, Consultant, Self-help Pioneer
I’m not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It’s just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
—Burton Hillis (William E. Vaughan) (1915–77) American Columnist, Author
Ah, mastery … what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills … and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
—Gail Sheehy (1936–2020) American Writer, Journalist
Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is—pray and believe.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
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