'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Interpretation
True character is revealed in difficult times when one can still remain positive.
This quote emphasizes that it is easy to be happy and cheerful when life is going well. However, the true measure of a person's worth is their ability to maintain a positive attitude and a smile during challenging and adverse situations. It highlights resilience and the depth of character that emerges under pressure.
In practice
Use this quote in a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
Sweep up the debris of decaying faith; _x000D_ Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs, _x000D_ And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge. _x000D_ Be not afraid _x000D_ To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .
It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.
Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
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