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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

Strength, Smile, Reflection, Man, Brave

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, Smile, Business, Heart

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, Smile, Fear, Heart, Man

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, Ignorance, Honor, America, Want

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

Passion, Money, People, Hardships, Want

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

Heart, Feel, Hand, Purse, Everyone, Give

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

Change, Change The World, World, Care

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect. Joseph B. Wirthlin

Loss, Problems, Financial, Self-Respect

There's a Biblical mandate to reach out to those who are the orphans, the widows in their distress, to take care of the stranger in your land. But that does not mean citizenship. James Lankford

Care, Citizenship, Take Care, Reach, Out

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, You, Abundance, Need, Days, Would

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

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

Beauty, Much, 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

Strength, Women, Little Girls, Think, Go

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The Intoxication of Life,' 'The Purpose of Life,' 'The Real Cause of Man's Distress,' 'The Journey to the Goal in Life,' and, one of my favorites, 'The Heart of Man.' They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me. Muhammad Ali

Life, Journey, Heart, Man, Me, Deep

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

Fear, Human, Pity, Godlike, Relieve

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

Me, Action, You, Want, Little, Got

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

Power, Grace, Rich, Help, Look, Eye

I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people. Leo McCarey

Walk, People, Clouds, World, Fairy Tale

Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent. Alain de Botton

Good, Parents, Pain, Words, Child, World

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. W. Somerset Maugham

World, Sight, Bored, Willing, Misfortune

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world. James F. Byrnes

War, People, Suffering, World, Important

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray. Mahatma Gandhi

Religion, Me, Fast, Pray, Remove, Cannot

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

Adversity, God, Fire, Day, Night, Cloud

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

Service, Nationalism, Born, Spirit, Sin

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

Life, Challenges, Trials, Kind, Dead, Us

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

Rich, Season, Poor, Unfair, Contribute

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

Life, Happiness, People, Society, Me

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