Adversity

(65 votes)   The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem, it's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.

Rosie Perez
1963-, American Actress, Dancer, Choreographer

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(64 votes)   As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity

Jean La Bruyere

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(64 votes)   It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Cicero

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(64 votes)   Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(64 votes)   One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(64 votes)   Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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(63 votes)   It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1855-1919, American Poet, Journalist

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(63 votes)   Only entropy comes easy.

Lewis Mumford
1895-1990, American Social Philosopher

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(63 votes)   Some people bear three kinds of trouble -- the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Edward Everett Hale
1822-1909, American Unitarian Clergyman, Writer

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(63 votes)   Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.

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(62 votes)   He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light.

Source Unknown

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(62 votes)   If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Frank A. Clark

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(62 votes)   Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny The Elder
c.23-79, Roman Neophatonist

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(62 votes)   There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Source Unknown

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(61 votes)   Adversity is merely an obstacle, those who are wise simply walk through it.

Eric Strife

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