Quotes About Adversity

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.

In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally, and if something blocks your route, find another. Never give up.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

Rarely is any good done without difficulty; the devil is too subtle and the world too corrupt not to attempt to nip such a good work in the bud

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.

For all of us it's the things that won't work that keep our interest.

I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.