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.

Do all the works you can while you still have the strength to work.

People use that as a measuring stick of how this guy handles adversity, … It wasn’t losing a couple games in a row. It was a lot larger than that. I think he did a...

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you...

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

So, with my knees pierced by needles and my shoulder sewn together by the slender thread of endorphins, I keep to my genuflection and end my story the only way that really fits. As a...

Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you’re spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.

Sweet are the uses of adversityWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Prosperity has many friends, even adversity has a few friends, but originality practicing the reality of altruistic humanity in life has only true friends.

Those of us who have come to know him can only admire his courage and perseverance in the face of adversity that would wither, wither the will of other men.

I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream it’s a written piece and nowThe symphony’s soundingShouting out to these feet...

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

You have great talents. Aim for God best for your life.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

It is sad but so many tragedies can be avoided, if we extend a little bit of love to one another.

No one can foretell the details in a day, we can only hope.

Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.

Your past history is NOT an excuse.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. Thats the essence of it.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It’s from those circumstances that a person’s attitude is...

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief–acceptance.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.