Great Quotes for Todays
Latter-Day Saints

Adversity | Christ | Courage | Enemies | Fasting | Faith | Freedom| Friendships and Relationships

Generosity | Goals | Gradtitude | Happiness | Humility | Lying | Life | Listening | Love

�| Missionary Work| Mothers | Motivation | Obedience | Past, Present, Future� | Prayer

| Procastination | Religion | Repentance | Reasons for Life | Sacrifice | Self Control | Self Evaluation

| Service | Sin | Social Graces| Spirituality | Strength | Success | Sympathy | Testimony

Adversity

At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.
Hudson newsletter

The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
unknown

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
unknown

The greatest battles of your life are fought within the private chambers of your own soul.
Davis O. McKay

Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes it's jewels with.
Leighton
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Christ

Christ's stumbling while carrying the cross reminds us how close the Lord will push us to our absolute limits.
unknown

If you find it hard to sleep, stop counting sheep and talk to the shepherd.
unknown

If we feel a distance between us and the Lord; remember, it's not the Lord who has moved.
unknown

May the Lord be as welcome in your world, as you are in His.
unknown

The Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is always changing.....us.
unknown

In the cathedral at Lubek, Germany, near the turn of the century was the following inscription:
���� "Ye call me master, and obey me not;
���� Ye call me light, and seek me not;
���� Ye call me way, and walk me not;
���� Ye call me wise, and follow me not;
���� Ye call me fair, and love me not;
���� Ye call me rich, and ask me not;
���� Ye call me eternal, and seek me not;
���� Ye call me gracious, and trust me not;
���� Ye call me noble, and serve me not;
���� Ye call me mighty, and honor me not;
���� Ye call me just, and fear me not;
���� If I condemn you, blame me not."
unknown

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
Ezra Taft Benson

We will not know him until we become like him.
Ezra Taft Benson

It was not the nails that held Jesus Christ to the cross but His love for us.
Unknown
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Courage

A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
unknown

True glory lies in noble deeds.
unknown

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Enemies

The best way to destroy an enemy, is to make him a friend.
unknown

Speak well of your enemies ... you made them.
unknown

Quarrels wouldn't last as long, if the fault was only on one side.
unknown

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
Lauter

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Fasting
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Fasting without prayer is starvation.
unknown

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Faith

Do your duty, that is best;
leave unto the Lord the rest.
David O. McKay

If in your quest you do your best,
The lord is there to do the rest.
unknown

Pray as if everything depends on God.
Then work as if everything depends on you.
unknown

If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?
unknown

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
unknown

Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience.
unknown

The faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.
unknown

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with
them to heaven.
J. Beaumon

Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.
unknown

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Goethe

Faith is not knowing what the future holds, but knowing who holds the future.
unknown

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.
unknown

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.
B.H. Roberts

The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.
unknown

As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.
unknown

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
Ezra Taft Benson

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
Elder Cloward

Freedom

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Brigham Young

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant....instead of my master.
Brigham Young

Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Pen

There are two freedoms ; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley

Agency is never appreciated until it is lost.
Unknown

Those who would deny agency to others, deserve it not for themselves.
Unknown

Friendships and Relationships

You lift me, and I'll lift you, and we'll ascend together.
unknown

Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
unknown

The closer we come to God, the closer we come together.
unknown

Short visits make long friends,
Brigham Young

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
Indian Proverb

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
unknown

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.
unknown

Choose your love,
Love your choice.
Thomas S. Monson

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Generosity

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
unknown

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Philip Brooks

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Persian Proverb

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
Unknown

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Goals

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
unknown

A man's reach should be beyond his grasp, or what is heaven for?
unknown

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Gradtitude

Gratitude is the doorman's payment.
unknown

Some people give and forgive; others get and forget.
Unknown

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Happiness

Smile; it the SECOND best thing one can do with one's lips.
unknown

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Smile: if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
unknown

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
Brigham Young

Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
unknown

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.
unknown

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret B. Runbeck

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
James Openhelm

A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
unknown

TEN RULES OF HAPPINESS By President David O. McKay

�� 1.Develop yourself by self-discipline.
�� 2.Joy comes through creation-sorrow through destruction. Every living thing can grow: Use the world wisely to realize soul
���� growth.
�� 3.Do things which are hard to do.
�� 4.Entertain upbuilding thoughts. What you think about when you do not have to think shows what you really are.
�� 5.Do your best this hour, and you will do better the next.
�� 6.Be true to those who trust you.
�� 7.Pray for wisdom, courage, and a kind heart.
�� 8.Give heed to God's messages through inspiration. If self-indulgence, jealousy, avarice, or worry have deadened your
���� response, pray the Lord to wipe out these impediments.
�� 9.True friends enrich life. If you would have friends, be one.
� 10.Faith is the foundation of all things-including happiness.

(Quoted in Richard L. Evans, "Portrait of a President," _The Improvement Era_, June 1951, p. 401)

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Humility

Don't be so humble; you're not that great.
Golda Meir, to a visiting diplomat.

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
unknown

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham Young

When we become aware of our humility, we've lost it.
unknown

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
Rutherford

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
unknown

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much;
Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Cowper

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
unknown

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
unknown

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Lying

When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.
unknown

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Oliver Wendall Holmes

Honest hearts produce honest actions.
Brigham Young

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Life

We do not remember days, we remember moments.
unknown

The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
unknown

A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.
unknown

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
unknown

I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life.
God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
unknown

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

In thought, faith
In word, wisdom
In deed, courage
In life, service
unknown

God gave us a memory so we could have roses in December.
unknown

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.
unknown

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
unknown

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all that I have not seen.
unknown

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
unknown

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
David O. McKay

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Opening scene of "Faust"

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.
unknown

"To really live, she thought, you must almost die. To those who have fought for it, life has a meaning the protected will never
know. Couldn't know." 'SysChick', James R. Farr

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Listening

A wise old owl sat in an oak.
The longer he sat, the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can't we be like that wise old bird?
unknown

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Brigham Young

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Love

Before I heard the doctors tell
The dangers of a kiss;
I had considered kissing you
The nearest thing to bliss.
But now I know biology
and sit and sigh and moan;
Six million mad bacteria
and I thought we were alone!
Anonymous

The path that leads to happiness so narrow that two can't walk on it unless they become one. unknown -- submitted by Murat
Cakir

A kiss is something that brings two people so close together, that they cannot see anything wrong with each other.
unknown

Love the giver more than the gift.
Brigham Young

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
George McDonald

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.
unknown

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.
unknown

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Missionary Work

A man convinced against his will; is of the same opinion still.
unknown

T. True
R. Righteous
Y. Yearnings
Elder Thomas Hansen

���� Those who would find truth must:

�� 1.Desire it.
�� 2.Pray for it.
�� 3.Study it.
�� 4.Practice it.

unknown

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners
to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
Brigham Young

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.
unknown

Prepare with purpose
Teach with testimony
Labor with love
Thomas S. Monson

"I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours."
unknown

You can make a friend and not baptize them, but you will never baptize someone and not make a friend.
unknown

This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.
Ezra Taft Benson

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Mothers

God could not be everywhere. Therefore, he made mothers.
Jewish Proverb

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Motivation

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
unknown

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down. Brian Weir -- Submitted by Brian Weir

No dreamer is ever to small;
no dream is ever to big.
unknown

Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
unknown

Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
unknown

God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we can hear twice as much as we say.
unknown

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
unknown

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
unknown

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.
unknown

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
unknown

If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
unknown

After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
unknown

You haven't failed 'til you quit trying.
unknown

ATTITUDE DETERMINES ALTITUDE!
unknown

Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw mud, the other stars.
unknown

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
unknown

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
unknown

If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
unknown

Your dips an falls do not confound me,
half as much as your heights astound me.
unknown

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.
unknown

The heights by great men reached and kept
were not obtained by sudden flight.
But they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.
Thomas S. Monson

"Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes."
unknown

Pep without purpose is piffle.
unknown

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
unknown

There are no traffic jams in the second mile.
unknown

Plan more than you can do, then do it.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Hitch your wagon to a star,
keep your seat, and there you are.
unknown

Where one door closes, another opens.
Don Quijote'

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't.
Thomas S. Monson

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
unknown

Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes.
unknown

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
unknown

When someone says, "That's a good question." You can be sure it's a lot better than the answer you're going to get.
unknown

Yes, it may be true but what it doesn't rain but what it pours. But thank God it never pours but what it stops.
unknown

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.
unknown

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin

There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen.
unknown

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
unknown

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
unknown

Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
unknown

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Auldous Huxley

There are times when a man should be content with what he has, but never with what he is.
William George Jordan

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
unknown

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendall Holmes

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Paul H. Dunn

You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Paul H. Dunn

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely,
unknown

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
unknown

All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
unknown

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
unknown

There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
unknown

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
unknown

The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement.
unknown

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
unknown

The person who's not fired with enthusiasm, usually gets fired otherwise.
unknown

Two thirds of promotion is motion.
unknown

Many people have the right aim in life, but never get around to pulling the trigger.
unknown

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
unknown

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
unknown

We all leave footprints in the sand, the question is, will we be a big heal, or a great soul.
unknown

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
unknown

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.
unknown

Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport the world has ever known.
unknown

The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your
capability.
unknown

Sow a thought, reap an act;
sow an act, reap a habit;
sow a habit, reap a character;
sow a character, reap an eternal destiny.
Charles Reade, 19th Century

God is our father, Man is our brother, and life is a mission, not a career.
unknown

Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "what happened?"
unknown

God's payment is the best payment.
Ezra Taft Benson

Don't fear, just live right.
Neal A. Maxwell

We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
unknown

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
J.Richard Clarke

The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Levell Edwards

Live as though you'd die tomorrow, but learn as though you'd live forever.
Folk Saying -- Midwest US.

Who tries, can.
Who wills, does.
Who loves, lives.
unknown

Where you have been is not nearly as important as where you are and where you�re going.
Marvin J. Ashton

The man who rows the boat seldom has time to rock it.
Unknown

Our best preparation for tomorrow is the proper use of today.
Unknown

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Unknown

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Obedience

Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival.
unknown

As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.
unknown

Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience.
unknown

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Past, Present, Future

You can't change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present, by worrying about the future.
unknown

One good thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
unknown

When we fill our hearts with regrets over the failures of yesterday, and with the worries over tomorrow, we have no today in
which to be thankful.
unknown

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be
lived.
C.S. Lewis

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.
C.S. Lewis

Never live in the past, but always learn from it.
unknown

Never do anything today that will cause you to say tomorrow, I will do better than yesterday.
unknown

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Prayer

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
Bunyan

Let your first "Good Morning" be to your Father in Heaven.
Karl G. Maeser

Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.
unknown

We have really learned how to pray when we realize that prayer is a privilege rather than a duty.
unknown

The things of God are of great import; and time, and experience,and careful, and ponderous, and solemn thoughts can only find
them out. Thy mind, oh man, if thou wilt lead a man unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and
contemplate the darkest abyss, and the broad expanses of eternity; thou must commune with God!
unknown

If your knees are knocking - kneel on them.
Unknown

Sometimes we expect million dollar answers to ten-cent prayers.
Unknown

You are a child of God - call home today.
Unknown

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.
William Cowper

We are often not only too slow to get on our knees, but too quick to rise from them.
Neal A. Maxwell

Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterward. Begin the day with God.
J. Hudson Taylor

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it�s a whisper.
Unknown

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel.
Neal A. Maxwell

As you feel the need to confide in the Lord or to improve the quality of your visits with Him... may I suggest a process to follow:
go where you can be alone, where you can think, where you can kneel, where you can speak out loud to him. The bedroom, the
bathroom, or a closet will do. Now, picture Him in your mind�s eye. Think of whom you are speaking. Control your thoughts--don�t
let them wander. Address Him as your Father and your friend. Now tell him things you really feel to tell him--not trite phrases that
have little meaning, but have a sincere, heartfelt conversation with Him. Confide in Him. Ask Him for forgiveness. Plead with
Him. Enjoy Him. Thank Him. Express your love for Him. Then listen for his answers. Listening is an essential part of praying.
Answers from the Lord come quietly, ever so quietly. In fact, few hear His answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening
carefully or we will never recognize them. Most answers from the Lord are felt in our heart as a warm, comfortable expression, or
they may come as thoughts to our mind. They come to those who are prepared and who are patient.
Unknown Knowing the scriptures is one thing. Knowing the author is another.
Unknown

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Procastination

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
John Lennon used it in "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)"

You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Professor Harrold Hill
(The Music Man)

If not me, Who?
If not now, When?
unknown

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
unknown

The biggest labor problem is tomorrow
Brigham Young

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and
every tomorrow a vision of hope.
unknown

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Religion

"I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian
religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the
world, they would be poor."
Patrick Henry

A good man, is a good man,
whether in this church, or out of it.
Brigham Young

Religion is meant to be bread for daily use, not cake for special occasions.
unknown

Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samule Johnson

Truth is truth where e're it is found; on Christian or on heathen ground.
unknown

The gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, can change human lives.
David O. McKay

It is important that a man gets into the church, but it is more important that the church get into the man.
unknown

Hell is truth seen too late.
unknown

Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men.
Joseph Smith Jr.

The gospel is simply beautiful, and beautifully simple.
Glenn L. Rudd

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Repentance

If we put off repentance for a day, we have a day more to repent of and one less day to repent.
Mason

Fear is the tax that the conscience pays to guilt.
Zachary Taylor

To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope

An injury can grieve us only when remembered. The noblest revenge therefore, is to forget.
unknown

The man who makes a mistake and does not correct it, thereby, makes another mistake.
Emerson

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.
Samuel Johnson

There are a thousand steps from hell to heaven, but only one from heaven to hell.
Unknown

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Reasons for Life

God left the world unfinished; the pictures unpainted, the songs unsung, and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys
of creation.
Thomas S. Monson

God grant us faith to stand on guard,
uncheered, unspoke, alone.
And see behind such duty hard
our service to the throne.
What e're our task, be this our creed;
We are on earth to fill a need.
unknown

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Sacrifice

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
unknown

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Karl G. Maeser

Sin is the real self sacrifice.
Lord Aveburry

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove in stead to be the greatest investment that you will
ever make.
Gorden B. Hinkley

Real sacrifice comes from self sacrifice.
Sister J.Richard Clarke

That which a man willingly shares, he keeps.
That which he selfishly keeps, he looses.
unknown

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Self Control

The best remedy for anger is delay.
Brigham Young

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Brigham Young

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Brigham Young

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
unknown

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
unknown

The soul is covered with the color of it's leisure thoughts.
unknown

You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
unknown

The ruin of most men dates from idle moments.
unknown

We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
unknown

It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
unknown

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.
Benjamin Franklin

The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.
unknown

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
unknown

A speech, to be immortal, need not be eternal.
unknown

There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Prentice

Look out for the tongue, it's in a wet place and may slip.
unknown

No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus

Of thine unspoken word thou art master; Thy spoken word is master of thee.
unknown

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
David O. McKay

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one
makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Marion G. Romney

The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.
Spencer W. Kimball

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
unknown

A spirit to find fault is an enemy to your peace and comfort, and also to the happiness of those around you. It is the key to your
destruction.
unknown

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he looses shows all of it.
unknown

You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
unknown

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Self Evaluation

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?
unknown

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do in our own?
Brigham Young

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
L A Rouchefolicauld

What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
unknown

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.
David O. McKay

Before you flare up at anyone's faults, take time to count ten.........of your own.
a Pentecostal Evangelist

He who flings mud, looses a lot of ground.
unknown

One night a father overheard his son pray:
"Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is."
Later that night, the Father prayed,
"Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be."
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He who seeks rest finds boredom....He who seeks work finds rest.
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A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
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I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
Socrates

Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the placewhere the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
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Of all the things you were, your expression is most important.
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If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.
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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
Renan

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
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The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
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Circumstances do not make a man, they simply reveal him to himself.
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I'd rather see a sermon that hear one any day; I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
David O. McKay

No individual snowflake ever felt any responsibility for an avalanche.
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Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
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You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it.
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If you feel you have no faults, there's another one.
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Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light.
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When you feel "dog tired" at night, it may be because you growled all day.
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Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
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When God measures man, He puts the tape around the heart, not the head.
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You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.
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What you see depends mainly upon what you look for.
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Sow a thought, reap an act;
sow an act, reap a habit;
sow a habit, reap a character;
sow a character, reap an eternal destiny.
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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
J.Richard Clarke

One who cares is one who listens.
J.Richard Clarke

Seek first to understand before being understood.
J.Richard Clarke

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Service

The greatest joy I know is to do a good action by stealth, and have it found by accident.
Charles Lamb

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
Hada Bejar

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Sin

The basis of all sin is selfishness.
David O. McKay

The Lord hates a quitter.
But he doesn't hate him son,
when the quitter is quitting
something he shouldn't have begun.
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Pride is a my will rather than a Thy will approach to life.
Ezra Taft Benson

Sin is the real self sacrifice.
Lord Aveburry

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Oliver Wendall Holmes

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Social Graces

Social tact is making a guest feel at home, when you really wish he was.
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Before you give someone a piece of your mind, be sure you can get along with what you have left.
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One good way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.
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Tact is the art of thinking all you say, and not saying all you think.
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People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you're trying to correct.
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Tact is the ability to close your mouth before someone else wants to.
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Spirituality

The more often a man feels without acting,
the less he'll be able to act.
And in the long run,
the less he'll be able to feel.
C.S. Lewis

What we do, depends upon how we feel, about what we know.
Lloyd Davis

Who builds a church in his heart and takes it with him everywhere, is holier far than he whose church is but a one day house of
prayer.
Mossis Abelbeer

If there is righteousness in the heart,
there will be beauty in character,
there will be harmony in the home;
If there is harmony in the home,
there will be order in the nation;
if there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world.
Chinese Proverb

Fear arises from the weaknesses of the flesh over which the devil has power.
Brigham Young

One day for church, six for fun; odds on going to heaven, six to one.
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He was trying to explain the word "Believe" to a child. Suddenly, the child had an idea of his own. "Doesn't it mean to 'hear with
my heart'?"
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Prayer is the passport to spiritual power.
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My words fly up; My thoughts remain below,
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Wm. Shakespear

Rather than prepare a talk, prepare yourself.
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Say to your soul, "Let no unclean thing enter here."
Karl G.Maeser

This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do.
Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.
Ezra Taft Benson

The Holy Ghost will come into anyone that will expect it.
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The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants.
LeGrand Richards

Reading the scriptures without pondering is like eating a sandwich without Miracle Whip.
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Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.
Ezra Taft Benson

The Book [of Mormon] is to be feasted upon, not nibbled.
Neal A. Maxwell
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Knowledge & Education

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
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Education is the power to think clearly,
the power to act well in the worlds work,
and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.
Brigham Young

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.
Joseph F. Smith

Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
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The heart is wiser than the intellect.
J.G. Holland

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.
Montaigne

The truly educated man will speak to the understanding of the most unlearned man of his audience.
Karl G. Maeser

A teacher effects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops.
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I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln

Knowledge is proud that she knows so much;
Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Cowper

It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind;
But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.
David O. McKay

Tell me and I forget;
Show me and I remember;
involve me and I understand.
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Strength

We are like tea bags, we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Sis. Busche

What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
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Success

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.
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Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, "I will do better tomorrow."
Brigham Young

I'd rather be right than President.
Henry Clay

Do the thing, and you shall have the power.
Emerson

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
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The successful man is the average man, focused.
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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.
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Success is the proper utilization of failure.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegy

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Sympathy

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one road.
Charles Henry Parkhurst

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Testimony

No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.
Bruce R. McConkie

A testimony isn't something you have today and will always have.
A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam.
It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.
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Truth is it's own witness.
J.Richard Clarke

There are only two things we need to testify to;
Joseph Smith is a Prophet of God, and The Book of Mormon is the word of God.
Ezra Taft Benson
A Witness and a Warning

The possession of a sure testimony is the most valuable possession that one could have. It gives one knowledge, the hope and
assurance that one, through obedience, can be a partaker of all the promised blessings.
Marion G. Romney

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