Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don’t care to know before they surrender!

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.

It takes darkness to be aware of the light.

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

We face up to awful things because we can’t go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say ‘Yes, it happened, and there’s nothing I can do about it,’ the sooner you can get...

We haven’t faced a lot of adversity in our own end, but I’m sure they’ll be fired up when they hear that comment. They’ll be ready to go.

Affliction is a good man’s shining time.

A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later

We handled adversity well last week. Now we find out how we handle success. Some teams don?t handle it too well.

Look deeply into your soul. You have enough grace and strength to overcome any struggle.

May you always have extraordinary grace and faith to cope with the uncertainties of life.

The power of inner strength lies in the ability to overcome the adversities of life and pressing onward toward the achievement of the goal.

It’s during a storm that the best songs get written.

For the first time in my life, I fully realized that I was not in charge. I knew that I needed to submit to Heavenly Father’s will. I couldn’t have what I wanted when and...

The hardest thing about “everything happens for a reason” is waiting for that reason to show up.

I overcame adversity throughout the year. Even though we didn’t meet a lot of our team goals, my peers recognized me as one of the best. It was so rewarding.

Some people is born at the start of a long hard row to hoe. Well, I am older than God’s dog and been in this world a long time and it seems to me that...

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

If we didn’t know the definition of adversity before, I’m sure we know it now. (The loss) was tough to swallow.

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”[Meditations Divine and Moral]

You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.

The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at...

Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be...

Without darkness, we may never know how bright the stars shine. Without battles, we could not know what victory feels like. Without adversity, we may never appreciate the abundance in our lives. Be thankful, not...

Every adversity is the fuel for the soul. The greatest self-realization occurs during the greatest adversity.

We can never forget the the beautiful places we have been.

Renew your mind with the knowledge on scriptures daily. You will be better equipped to handle any situation.

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity

Trials come to each of us. Living righteously does not mean that our lives will be free of problems or sorrow, but no matter what hardships we face we can always rely on Heavenly Father...

I’ll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that’s more than I can say for prosperity

This is only the second step in our journey, but it might be more valuable than our first one last week. Adversity sometimes is some of the best experience you have.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.

People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat....

Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It’s growing out of sour earth....

In order to grow, I promise you’ll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they’ll be the habits you’re most in love with.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries...

The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It’s the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you can live fully in the present. When you live in the present moment the greater you can build stepping stones for a brighter...

But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,That one day we shall thank thee perfectlyFor pain and hope and all that led or droveUs back into the bosom of thy love.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

Life’s problems don’t define who we are; we are wonderful souls!

Life is so much better when we dwell on awe-inspired thoughts.