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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Francis Ford Coppola
Enter through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to damnation is wide, the road is clear, and many choose to travel it. But how narrow is the gate that leads to life, how rough the road, and how few there are who find it. Mathew 7:13-14
Bible
They that sow in tears shall reap joy. Psalms 126:5
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
J. C. (James Cash) Penney
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. 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, The Crisis, 1776
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Rabindranath Tagore
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
The Talmud
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
H.K. Barclay
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Kahlil Gibran
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
Francisco D'Anconia
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Pliny the Elder
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Sam Walton
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
Samuel Johnson
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
A man is a god in ruins.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.
Cavett Robert
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Sir Walter Scott
