Distress Quotes

Distress Quote of the day

All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if they need help. Every creature in distress has the same right to be protected.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

The supreme need in every hour of difficulty and distress is for a fresh vision of God. Seeing Him, all else takes on proper perspective and proportion.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

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.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

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

I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.

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

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, ‘I have a mother.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

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.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

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

Every time you see someone in distress, you have the opportunity to work as a team with Heaven's angels. You become the channel for your angels to provide loving care to those in need.

I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it.

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress

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.

He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

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.

It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress.

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.