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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. - Thomas Paine

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine

Smile, Strength, Grows

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. Leonardo da Vinci

Love, Strength, Death

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine

Love, Strength, Fear

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us. Russell M. Nelson

Likely, Consumed, Detours

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. Princess Diana

Happiness, Destiny, My Life

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 much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Adams

Nature, Constitution, Arise

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten. Emmeline Pankhurst

Suffering, Almost, Fact

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. George Washington

Everyone, Give, Proportion

If only 7 percent of the 2 billion Christians in the world would care for a single orphan in distress, there would effectively be no more orphans. If everybody would be willing to simply do something to care for one of these precious treasures, I think we would be amazed by just how much we could change the world. Steven Curtis Chapman

I Think, Everybody, Willing

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 hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. William Blake

Thief, Cause, Alleged

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor. Thomas Malthus

Combinations, Frequently

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. Thorstein Veblen

Born, Iniquity, Conceived

Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up. Samuel Adams

Sustaining, Omnipotence

I love making shorts out of jeans, or customizing denim. Basically, I like to rip and distress things... I love that look. Hailey Baldwin

Love, Like, Making

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Khalil Gibran

Joy, Need, Would

All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress. Martha Beck

Practice, Telling, Wasting

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here. Kirsten Dunst

Want, Here, Scream

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress. Ian Mcewan

Help, Want, Someone

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams. Princess Diana

Want, Emotions, Insecurities

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. Horace Mann

Fear, Pity, Relieve

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! Robert Burns

Brothers, Sons, How

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. - Edmund Burke

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. Edmund Burke

Beauty, Most, Affecting

I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds. Octavia Spencer

Think, I Think, Young Women

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. Charles de Montesquieu

Fear, Never, Known

We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help. Sam Houston

Blind, Through, Worlds

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim. Scarlett Johansson

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