Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.

You have to handle the challenges and emerge stronger from them, rather than allow them to bog you down.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself that I would get up and emerge from this debacle better for having gone through it. I would live up to the expectation I had for myself. I would be the kind of man I wanted to be.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

What don't break you will make you.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

We learn to fight and to grow strong by fighting.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

Although it may seem like it, life will never give you more than you can handle. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy; in fact, quite the opposite.

Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.