Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.

No man who has brought himself back from what might have been an entire life of invalidism to strength, and activity, physical and mental and spiritual can ever be accused of preaching or exemplifying a mollycoddle philosophy.

I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

I think the failure in the NFL has humbled me in the fact that I don't think I'm the best.

It might come off as cocky, but I've been through a lot in my life.

Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.

There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser.

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.

Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life; strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak. Are there no human weaknesses? - says man. There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them, would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness? Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong.

When I am weak, then I am strong.

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

He that is down needs fear no fall.

I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are...

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it's working for my good, And it's building my testimony.