Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

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.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

I realised that I had a choice to either feel angry about not having arms and legs, or thankful for having my family, friends and my little foot.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

I can't get caught up in darkness. I just don't. I always want to gravitate towards light. I love picking yourself up or surviving or being grateful for the good stuff and not getting lost in the tough stuff. The discipline is so natural for me.

It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

Throughout the journey of my life, I have maintained a strong faith in the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely fighting to stay above water. And in that fight, there's hope. In that fight, maybe there's positivity.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.