Quotes About Adversity

For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding, there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.

everything is hard before it's easy

En el camino a tu destino, en el logro de tu meta más importante, pregúntate continuamente, ¿cuáles son las peores cosas que podrían pasar? Y luego protégete contra ellas.

No importa lo que todos te digan, prepárate para la posibilidad de que no lo hagan.

No espere; el tiempo nunca será el «más adecuado». Empiece donde está y trabaje con las herramientas que tenga a disposición y hallará mejores herramientas a medida que avance. Napoleon Hill

Primera regla del tragamiento de sapos: «Si tiene que tragarse dos sapos, tráguese primero el más feo».

En el análisis final, la pregunta de por qué le pasan cosas malas a la gente buena se transmuta en preguntas muy diferentes; ya no se pregunta por qué sucedió algo, se pregunta cómo responderemos, qué pretendemos hacer ahora que sucedió.

The fact is that successful people fail far more often than unsuccessful people. Successful people try more things, fall down, pick themselves up, and try again—over and over again—before they finally win.

DON'T QUIT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile but you have to sigh

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. NAPOLEON HILL

Una de mis historias favoritas es sobre un joven que va a un viejo filósofo y le dice: «La vida es dura». El filósofo responde: «¿En comparación con qué?».

As Victor Frankl wrote in his best selling book, Logotherapy, "The last great freedom of mankind is the freedom to choose your attitude under any set of external conditions.

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct.

Every situation is a positive situation if viewed as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.

Overall, though, if you focus too much on bad experiences you will invite more of the same. But if you turn them into just another chapter in the narrative of success, you'll find it easier to draw positive solutions.

But change is the law of growth, and growth is the law of life. If you don't move out of your comfort zone, you cannot make any progress.

You will have many ups and downs in life, but what is most important is that you remain "true to yourself." Then, as Shakespeare said, "thou can'st not then be false to any man.

What is the mean-spirited cosmic force that dictates that once you've smacked you shin once, you'll re-smack the same spot on everything sharp and hard that comes within a thirty-foot radius?

If you see you're going to get popped in a fair fight, don't fight fair.

Anyone who has grown spiritually, mentally or physically knows that growth is not found in comfort. My

The true measure of a man is in how much it takes to discourage him." I

he resisted the temptation to avoid suffering

Kearny had probably seen more fighting than any man on the field. He had served in Mexico as a cavalry captain; had remarked, in youthful enthusiasm, that he would give an arm to lead a cavalry charge against the foe. He got his wish, at the exact price offered, a few days later, leading a wild gallop with flashing sabers and losing his left arm. He once told his servant: "Never lose an arm; it makes it too hard to put on a glove.

Because what I know for sure is that everything that has happened to you was also happening for you. And all that time, in all of those moments, you were building strength. Strength times strength times strength equals power. What happened to you can be your power. — Oprah