Quotes about Adversity

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you - in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.

I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.

Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.

When satan wants you to cry and you laugh, you defeat him

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

In a season, you're going to go through slumps.

Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.