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Quotes About Adversity

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.
~ Og Mandino
When the pain comes, you know what I do? I smile.
~ Chris McCormack
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
~ Jean Giraudoux
When we learn to smile at life, we shall find that the problems we encounter dissolve.
~ Donald Curtis
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
~ Robert Jordan
You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.
~ Spiro T. Agnew
When people tell you, "No," just smile and tell them, "Yes, I can."
~ Julie Foudy
People can smile even when terrified.
~ Nisio Isin
If the world 's a vale of tears, Smile, till rainbows span it!
~ Lucy Larcom
I hit a lot of bad shots, but you just need to laugh about them, be able to have a smile on your face, and just keep moving.
~ Lorena Ochoa
I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.
~ Jack Kevorkian
Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.
~ Leonid Andreyev
A smile and a laugh are the duct tape of life; they can fix anything.
~ Mike Wallace
If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.
~ Chris Cleave
Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.
~ Rumi
My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.
~ Paulo Coelho
Chin up, don't smile, don't cry, don't fall, walk.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Sometimes when you smile, it's not because you're happy. It's because you're strong.
~ Pamela Anderson
With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.
~ Owen Wister
A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.
~ Suzanne Collins
She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile
~ Margaret Mitchell
You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.
~ Nick Hornby
You have to smile after making trouble. This way you get in less trouble.
~ EunB