Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

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

I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.

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

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

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.

Everything that has happened to me in my life has defined who I am, and all of the things leading up to being governor, that all came from overcoming challenges in childhood and overcoming challenges as I got older. When you have God, you quickly understand there's nothing you can't overcome.

It was a great experience for me - the ups and downs - because I became a man in Philadelphia.

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

You learn from adversity more than anything because it allows you to see so much. It really allows you to see things in a different way.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Adversity builds character and character takes you places money can't.

Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.