To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what’s right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
The whole problem is to establish communication with one’s self.
—E. B. White (1985–99) American Essayist, Humorist
The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won’t satisfy.
—Unknown
I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-born British Philosopher
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
—Simone Weil (1909–1943) French Philosopher, Political Activist
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
—Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923–2019) American Psychiatrist, Author
If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.
—Brewster Kahle (b.1960) American Librarian, Engineer
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
—Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author
If we would just support each other—that’s ninety percent of the problem.
—Howard Gardner (b.1943) American Cognitive Psychologist
Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you’ve got.
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American Historian, Political Leader, Explorer
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.—Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
—Epicurus (c.341–270 BCE) Greek Philosopher
No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
—Anonymous
The bottom line is that if you become a master at handling problems and overcoming obstacles, what can stop you from success? The answer is nothing! And if nothing can stop you, you become unstoppable!
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had “troubles,” frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had “complications.” To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
Solve one problem, and you keep a hundred others away.
—Chinese Proverb
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
—Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874–1956) American Business Executive
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
—John Dewey (1859–1952) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Educator
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
—Henry J. Kaiser (1882–1967) American Industrialist
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
—Brian Aldiss (1925–2017) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer
Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
—Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson
Flies will easily fly into the honey—their problem is how to get out.
—Persian Proverb
The how” thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile “ifs” but goes right to work on the creative “how”.”
—Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author
If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
—John W. Gardner (1912–2002) American Activist
It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes.
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American Humorist, Journalist
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
—Albert Ellis (1913–2007) American Psychologist
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