Top 33 Quotes About Adversity At Work
#1. The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
Ben Bernanke
#2. Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.
Mason Cooley
#3. Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.
Tom Watson
#4. Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword.
Max Hawthorne
#5. I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.
James Goodnight
#6. The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.
Damien Hirst
#7. The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
Marian Wright Edelman
#8. I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats
Lil' Wayne
#9. I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#10. Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
Gary Hamel
#11. Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.
Sebastian Roche
#12. When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.
Zicheng Hong
#13. The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.
Steve Stoute
#14. I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.
Andrea Arnold
#15. The gods in bounty work up storms about us, that give mankind occasion to exert their hidden strength and throw out into practice virtues that shun the day, and lie concealed in the smooth seasons and the calms of life.
Joseph Addison
#16. Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.
Louisa May Alcott
#17. The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.
Joshua Waitzkin
#18. Don't get smart with me." She snickered. "Are you sure you'd know if I did?
Suzanne Wright
#19. Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
Dave Koz
#20. You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired.
Ken Field
#21. I bought a dress a few years ago for £2,500. It was outrageous and not the kind of money you want to be spending. I had a mad moment that day.
Sharleen Spiteri
#22. The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
Horace Greeley
#23. My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.
Patrick J. Adams
#24. I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
Carol Burnett
#25. Keep walking! Keep walking!" Agres hissed as they headed away from Gila walking as fast as they could at this point they didn't care how they looked.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#26. I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
Dallin H. Oaks
#27. I would have to name two people - my parents. I've seen them come through adversity and work hard to create the best life for me and my siblings. Although I don't remember them together as a couple, I remember the love they had for their children.
Dwyane Wade
#28. Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
Criss Jami
#29. You were laughing at where I work."
"So? You do!"
"Yes, because I work there. I'm laughing in the face of adversity, you're just laughing in my face!
David Nicholls
#30. During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#31. I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
Helen Keller
#32. Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity.
Jerry I. Porras
#33. Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.
Tom Cochrane
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