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.

In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more difficult, the better. It’s not as valuable if your difficulties stem from your own inner struggle. But when...

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest...

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by...

Break a bone..and as the broken part heals it becomes the strongest part in it….get hit by a virus, survive that and “supposedly” it can never get u again… observe how ur skin that gets...

We set up ourselves for some adversity. You’re the first ones here and you’re the last ones to leave. We’re tired, but yet we don’t let our team have any less expectations. We’ve only won...

You can survive the storm. Your soul is stronger than the storm.

No matter how often you miss the target, keep firing the shots. Your victory is certain!

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

… when it seemed at every turn that the winds of fate had blown our lives afoul, financially, emotionally, or idealistically. Look at all that we endured. Look at all we managed to light along...

Every adversity can be a blessing. May you have the courage to overcome any adversity.

Don’t let others control who you should be, or try to make you do what you don’t want to. It will eat away at your soul. Believe it or not, you are the maker of...

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all,...

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you’re in God’s will, the negatives are part of his positive program.

If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.

see” your heart and rejoice with you.

Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, “an extraordinary achievement” and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

This team has overcome so much adversity. It speaks to the character of the kids. It seems like every week they’ve gone through something. It’s an unbelievable group of guys. You don’t win as many...

Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for...

Life with trials hard may press me;Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.

I think he’s just one of those kids who has overcome adversity and become a good player. He’s overcome those things to make himself a very good football player. I expect him to be a...

For every remote miss who becomes stronger, there are countless near misses who are crushed by what they have been through. There are times and places, however, when all of us depend on people who...

May grace abound to you; you overcome any challenging situation.

The soul of a man is strong enough to withstand any adversity.

You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don’t give up too early.

If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)

Today we face adversity like never before. If we promise to keep that flame inside of us, the flame which coach Dixon ignited, then we will never lose. We will be fighters to the end,...

It’s hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can’t understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every...

Life is a battle, and you either enter it armed, or surrender immediately.

If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God’s sake? But God has so ordained, that we may learn to bear with one another’s burdens, for there is no man...

you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in...

You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity...

Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware.” ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its...

If you fall-and trust me, you will- make sure you fall on your back. Because if you fall on your back, you can see up. And if you can see up, you can get up....

Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.

When you see evil do not form ideas that are in the likeness of that evil; do not think of the evil as bad, but try to understand the forces that are back of that...

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

We can still find joy in the midst of the storm.

In the game of life;Sometimes we win,Sometimes we loss,Either ways, we should always keep playing.