Thomas S. Monson Quotes

When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you.

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

Every day has its own challenges, and every day those challenges make us stronger.

The bad experiences make you stronger and makes you focus on the next project.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

You have to experience and take defeat in any and all aspects of life so you can be better and stronger.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

I build myself back up and come back stronger. That's what I do.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

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

I believe I overcame a lot.

What don't break you will make you.

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