Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Everybody has their struggles.

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

When 'stuff' hits the fan, it has a way of making you stronger.

The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there's a story of a personal struggle.

Never lose hope under adverse situations.

When stuff happens to you, it just makes you tougher, man.

To me, faith is being thankful when things in life are going well and also being thankful when they are not. Its often through our most difficult times when faith lifts us up and gives us the courage and the strength to work even harder to accomplish a new goal or do something we never thought we could.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

There are some things you can only learn in a storm.