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QUOTE BOOK
Snippets of inspiration from all walks of life, compiled over the last seven years

Brent Dance
12/7/2009
Table of Contents
FORMER PERESIDENTS of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ........... 39
OTHER CHURCH AUTHORITIES/Authors/Personal .................................................. 51
MISCELLANEOUS QUOTES (All Walks of Life) .................................................................. 66
AUTHOR UNKNOWN ..................................................................................................... 127
 The QUOTE BOOK
MODERN-DAY PROPHETS, Seers and Revelators of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
-President Gordon B. Hinckley-
Hinckley-
1) “Cling to the Church. If you will do so, it will become as an anchor in the midst of
a stormy sea. It will be a light to your lives and a foundation upon which to build
them.” President Gordon B. Hinkley
2) “I am one who believes that love, like faith, is a gift of God.” President Hinckley
3) “Love is the ‘Lodestar’.” President Gordon B. Hinkley
4) “Knowledge without labor is profitless, knowledge with labor is genius.”
President Gordon B. Hinkley
5) “You know what is right and what is wrong. You can not use ignorance as an
excuse for unacceptable behavior.” President Hinckley
6) “Let virtue garnish your courtship, and absolute fidelity be the crown jewel of your
marriage.” President Hinckley
7) “...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because
we are thinking only of ourselves.” President Hinckley
8) “We must work on our responsibilities as parents as if everything in life
depended on it when in fact everything in life does depend on it. If we have
failed in the home we have failed in our lives.” President Hinckley
9) “Keep yourselves open to the inspiration of the Lord. Listen to the whisperings of
the Spirit. I remember when Brother (Harold B) Lee set me apart as a stake
president. He said, "Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit in the stillness of the
night." Now, I believe in that. I have seen in my experience and I think I can
testify that the Lord has spoken quietly. I didn't hear any words, but in the middle
of the night ideas have come into my head which, I think, have been prophetic in
their nature.” President Hinckley - From Friday Night Devotional, Missionary
Training Center, June 1998
10) “People ask me what my favorite scripture is. I say, "Well, I have several of
them." One of them is this: "Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead
thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers." (D&C 112:10) There is
not room for arrogance in our lives. There is no room for conceit in our lives.
There is no room for egotism in our lives. We must be humble before the Lord.
He has so declared, and if we will do it, HE will hear our prayers and answer
them with a blessing upon our heads.” President Hinkley -From Winnipeg,
Manitoba, member meeting, Aug 1998
11) “Teach your children when they are young and small, and never quit. As long as
they are in your home, let them be your primary interest.” President Hinckley
12) “Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with
faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the
 testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.” President
Hinckley
13) “Every Latter-day Saint has the responsibility to know for himself or herself with a
certainty beyond doubt that Jesus is the resurrected, living Son of the living God.”
President Hinckley
14) “When people of goodwill labor cooperatively in an honest and dedicated way,
there is no end to what they can accomplish.” President Hinckley
15) “Be humble. There is no place for arrogance in our lives. There is no place for
conceit in our lives. There is no place for egotism in our lives.” President Hinckley
16) “I don't hesitate to say if every family in the world practiced [family home
evening], you'd see a very great difference in the solidarity of the families of the
world.” President Hinckley
17) “Ye who hold the priesthood, bind it to your very souls and you will enjoy that
peace of soul that passes all understanding.” President Hinckley
18) “Our work is in terms of individuals.” President Hinckley
19) “How grateful I am to know that God loves us. The incomprehensible depth of
that love found expression in the gift of His Only Begotten Son.” President
Hinckley
20) “I testify that our prayers, offered in humility and sincerity, are heard and
answered. It is a miraculous thing, but it is real.” President Hinckley
21) “There is no other resource to compare with prayer. To think that each of us may
approach our Father in Heaven . . . for individual help and guidance, for strength
and faith, is a miracle in and of itself.” President Hinckley
22) “By the way you lead your life, it should reflect loyalty, and love.” President
Hinckley
23) “Endeavor to pursue a course that will promote the smile of the Almighty.”
President Hinckley
24) “Joseph of Egypt – Self-disciplined to never violate a trust.” President Hinckley
25) “Be strong in the strength of simple honesty.” President Hinckley
26) “Woman is God’s supreme creation.” President Hinckley
27) “You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove
instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.” President
Hinckley
28) “I do not complain at our situations. I accept the situations as His will.” President
Hinckley
29) “We either have a prophet or we have nothing and having a prophet we have
everything.” President Hinckley
30) “God be thanked for the Son of Mankind.” President Hinckley
31) “This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you
marry. . . . Marry the right person in the right place at the right time.” President
Hinckley
32) “There is no substitute for marrying in the temple. It is the only place under the
heavens where marriage can be solemnized for eternity. Don't cheat yourself.
Don't cheat your companion. Don't shortchange your lives.” President Hinckley
33) “Choose a companion of your own faith. You are much more likely to be happy.
Choose a companion you can always honor, you can always respect, one who
 will complement you in your own life, one to whom you can give your entire heart,
your entire love, your entire allegiance, your entire loyalty.” President Hinckley
34) “I hope you will not put off marriage too long. I do not speak so much to the
young women as to the young men whose prerogative and responsibility it is to
take the lead in this matter. Don't go on endlessly in a frivolous dating game.
Look for a choice companion, one you can love, honor, and respect, and make a
decision.” President Hinckley
35) “How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that comes from the
knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue,
notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time.” President
Hinckley
36) “Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal, is going to waste a lot of time running
around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop,
most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful
marriages require a high degree of mutual tolerance, most jobs are more often
dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time journey . . . delays, sidetracks, smoke,
dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas, and
thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for the ride.” President
Hinckley
37) “He lives, my one sure rock of faith, the one bright hope of men on earth, the
beacon to a better way, the light beyond the veil of death.” Gordon B. Hinckley -
My Redeemer Lives #135
38) “He will open the windows of heaven according to our need not according to our
greed.” President Hinckley
39) “People are like stained glass windows. They glow and sparkle when it is sunny
and bright; but when the sun does down their true beauty is revealed only if there
is a light from within.” President Gordon B. Hinckley
40) “If as a people we will build and sustain one another, the Lord will bless us with
the strength to weather every storm and continue to move forward through every
adversity.” President Gordon B. Hinckley (Ensign, May 1982, p. 46)
41) “Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose
sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you
will follow.” President Gordon B. Hinckley
42) “Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond
your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know,
and the Lord will accept of your effort.” President Gordon B. Hinckley
43) “Time is really all we have. And every individual has an equal portion of it. The
trick is to get more out of what is available.” President Gordon B. Hinckley
44) “The only conquest that brings satisfaction is the conquest of self. It was said of
old that he who governs himself is greater than he who takes a city.” President
Gordon B. Hinckley (Proverbs 16:32)
45) “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.”
President Gordon B. Hinckley
46) “We have basic cornerstones on which this great latter-day Church has been
established by the Lord and built, 'fitly framed together.' They are absolutely
 fundamental to this work—the very foundation, anchors on which it stands.”
President Hinckley
47) “A powerful testimony is that quiet encouraging voice without pause that sustains
the walk of faith through life.” President Hinckley (paraphrased)
48) “Is there a valid case for virtue? It is the only way to freedom from regret. The
peace of conscience which flows therefrom is the only personal peace that is not
counterfeit.” President Hinckley
49) “With all of our doing, with all of our leading, with all of our teaching, the most
important thing we can do for all those who we lead is to cultivate in their hearts a
living, vital, vibrant testimony and knowledge of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the
Redeemer of the world, the Author of our salvation, He who atoned for the sins of
the world and opened the way of salvation and eternal life. I would hope that in
all we do we would somehow constantly nourish the testimony of our people
concerning the Savior. I am satisfied – I know it’s so – that whenever a man has
a true witness in his heart of the living reality of the Lord Jesus Christ, all else will
come together as it should . . . That is the root from which all virtue springs
among those who call themselves Latter-day Saints.” President Hinckley
50) “This is the work for which the Savior gave His life. We are serving with Him in
the great work of the Father to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of
mankind.” President Hinckley
51) “Sing and dance, hike and skate.” President Hinckley
52) “The protection of the ministry of angels is no greater than when you are an
apostle.” President Hinckley (speaking of full-time missionaries and those in the
Lord’s work)
53) “In all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed not just
endured.” President Hinckley
54) “Making choices is the substance of our lives. We fought a war in heaven over
choices. And the great battle goes on in the world today.” President Gordon B.
Hinckley; Ensign, Apr. 1996, 76
55) “Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but I hope that we
shall speak with such conviction that those to whom we speak shall know of the
strength of our feeling and the sincerity of our effort." President Hinckley
56) “There is nothing richer, nor more powerful for good or for evil, than the
relationship between husband and wife.” President Hinckley
57) We need to be able to say to our spouse . . . “I want to be happy but I cannot be
happy unless you are happy.” President Hinckley
58) "Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams
become a reality." Gordon B. Hinckley
59) “The lives of our people must become the most meaningful expression of our
faith and . . . the symbol of our worship.” Gordon B. Hinckley
60) Question: “What are some of the things you ponder about?” “I don't know. I
haven't pondered on that question. Oh, I don't know. Many things, but when you
ponder, don't ponder so long that you fall asleep. Ponder and then go to work.”
Gordon B. Hinckley (interview on his 95th birthday on June 25, 2005)
61) Question: “You seem so youthful and full of energy. What is your secret?” “Well,
when you get this age people look at you as if you are an artifact in the museum.
 But, the key – the secret – when you get to this age is to keep busy. Work, work,
work is the best antidote for loneliness, for incapacity, for any other thing that
happens to impede your progress.” Gordon B. Hinckley (interview on his 95th
birthday on June 25, 2005)
62) “It's been a long road and a wonderful experience, really, to live all these years
and to have reasonably good health. If I could only get my feet to work I think I
could last a little longer. But if you're going to have something go wrong you
better have your feet than your head.” President Gordon B. Hinckley
63) “I know, I realize, of course, we're all in the hands of the Lord. He's the one who
determines how long we live, when we die, when we pass on, what we do. I feel
profoundly and deeply grateful for His blessings and recognize that He's the giver
of life, and that in His own due time and according to His will and wisdom our
years are numbered.” President Gordon B. Hinckley
64) “The greatest blessing in my life is the remarkable woman to whom I was
married for 67 years. She took care of me. She put me in my place when I went
overboard a little bit and always looked after me and blessed me and made it
possible for me to do my work.” President Gordon B. Hinckley
65) “I feel satisfied that there is no adequate substitute for the morning and evening
practice of kneeling together—father, mother, and children.” President Gordon B.
Hinckley
66) "If every husband and every wife would constantly do whatever might be
possible to ensure the comfort and happiness of his or her companion, there
would be very little, if any, divorce. Argument would never be heard. Accusations
would never be leveled. Angry explosions would not occur. Rather, love and
concern would replace abuse and meanness." President Hinckley
67) “A mind must not only keep intelligence but the soul must embrace and abide by
the knowledge.” President Gordon B. Hinckley
68) “Educate yourself for time and for eternity.” President Gordon B. Hinckley
69) “I don’t want to drive up to the Pearly Gates in a shiny sports car, wearing
beautifully tailored clothes, my hair perfectly coiffed, and with long perfectly
manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the
wheels from taking kids to Scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on
my shoes from mowing Sister Shenck’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of
peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children.
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed
someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks
and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know that I was really
here and that I really lived.” Sister Marjory Hinckley

-Elder Dallin H. Oaks-

Oaks-
70) “Wisdom is lost in knowledge, knowledge is lost in information.” Elder Dallin H.
Oaks
71) “The primary reason we are commanded to avoid criticism is to preserve our
own spiritual well-being, not to protect the person whom we would criticize.” Elder
Oaks
72) “We offer everyone the privilege of receiving all of the ordinances of salvation
and exaltation.” Elder Oaks
73) “Each of us should do all that we can, in the spirit of gospel self-reliance, to
provide for ourselves and our families in a temporal and a spiritual way.” Elder
Oaks
74) “In contrast to the institutions of the world which teach us to know something, the
gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something.” Elder Oaks
75) “The greatest miracle of them all is a mighty change of heart. That miracle
directly affects ones eternal status and brings much more than temporary
rewards.” Elder Oaks
76) “When we look at life through spiritual lenses we the commandments as
invitations to blessings.” Elder Dallin H. Oaks
77) “Now is the time for each of us to work toward our personal conversion, toward
becoming what our Heavenly Father desires us to become.” Elder Oaks
78) “There is hope for each of us, even if we have sinned and strayed.” Elder Oaks
79) “If a revelation is outside the limits of stewardship, you know it is not from the
Lord, and you are not bound by it. I have heard of cases where a young man told
a young woman she should marry him because he had received a revelation that
she was to be his eternal companion. If this is a true revelation, it will be
confirmed directly to the woman if she seeks to know. In the meantime, she is
under no obligation to heed it. She should seek her own guidance and make up
her own mind. The man can receive revelation to guide his own actions, but he
cannot properly receive revelation to direct hers. She is outside his stewardship.”
Elder Oaks
80) “There might be a lot of people who can go without paying tithing . . . but we
can’t.” Elder Oaks (“I can’t afford not to pay tithing)
81) “Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time,
hardships can be the means of eternal growth in ATTITUDE and DESIRE. If
endured with the right attitude and accompanied by righteous desires, suffering
and deprivation can be the agency of great growth in our spirits.” Elder Dallin H.
Oaks
82) “Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences--be
they good or bad.” Elder Dallin H. Oaks
83) “When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous
responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved in the work of
the Lord, the obstacles before us are never as great as the power behind us. We
should reach out and climb. Handholds will only be found by hands that are
outstretched. Footholds are only for feet that are on the move.” Elder Dallin H.
Oaks (“Reach Out and Climb!” New Era, Aug. 1985, 4)
84) “In all the important decisions in our lives, what is most important is to do the
right thing. Second, and only slightly behind the first is to do the right thing at the
right time. People who do the right thing at the wrong time can be frustrated and
ineffective. They can even be confused about whether they made the right
choice when what was wrong was not their choice but their timing.” Elder Oaks
85) “We have thousands of times more available information than Thomas Jefferson
or Abraham Lincoln. Yet which of us would think ourselves a thousand times
 more educated or more serviceable to our fellowmen than they? The sublime
quality of what these two men gave to us—including the Declaration of
Independence and the Gettysburg Address—was not attributable to their great
resources of information, for their libraries were comparatively small by our
standards. Theirs was the wise and inspired use of a limited amount of
information.” Elder Oaks (“Focus and Priorities”)
86) “Available information wisely used is far more valuable than multiplied
information allowed to lie fallow.” Elder Oaks (“Focus and Priorities”)
87) “I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and
undernourished on the bread of life.” Elder Oaks (“Focus and Priorities”)
88) “The ultimate Latter-day Saint priorities are twofold: First, we seek to understand
our relationship to God the Eternal Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, and to
secure that relationship by obtaining their saving ordinances and by keeping our
personal covenants. Second, we seek to understand our relationship to our
family members and to secure those relationships by the ordinances of the
temple and by keeping the covenants we make in that holy place. These
relationships, secured in the way I have explained, provide eternal blessings
available in no other way. No combination of science, success, property, pride,
prominence, or power can provide these eternal blessings!” Elder Oaks (“Focus
and Priorities”)
89) “Adversity is temporary, what is permanent is what we become.” Elder Oaks
90) “Happiness and spiritual progress lie in following the leaders of the Church.”
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
91) “I wish to stress the Lord’s command, quoted earlier, that gospel teachers should
‘teach the principles of my gospel . . . as they shall be directed by the Spirit. . . .
And if ye receive not the Spirit ye shall not teach’ (D&C 42:12-14). It is a gospel
teacher’s privilege and duty to seek that level of discipleship where his or her
teachings will be directed and endorsed by the Spirit rather than being rigidly
selected and prearranged for personal convenience or qualifications.” Elder
Dallin H. Oaks
92) “I gospel teacher, like the Master we serve, will concentrate entirely . . . On the
needs of the sheep.” Elder Dallin H. Oaks
93) “The family circle is the ideal place to demonstrate and learn kindness,
forgiveness, faith in God, and every other practicing virtue of the gospel of Jesus
Christ.” Elder Dallin H. Oaks
94) “I know that the consequences of the 'furnace of affliction' bring eternal blessings.
Those blessings are made possible because of the Resurrection and Atonement
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.” Elder Dallin H. Oaks
95) “One of the most Godlike expressions of the human soul is the act of
forgiveness . . . Forgiveness is mortality’s mirror image of the mercy of God.”
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
96) “Our temples are living, working testimonies to our faith in the reality of the
resurrection.” Elder Dallin H. Oaks
97) “Do you, like the pioneers, have the courage and the consistency to be true to
the faith and endure to the end?” Elder Dallin H. Oaks
98) "The Savior taught that we should not lay up treasures on earth but should lay
up treasures in heaven (see Matt. 6:19-21). In light of the ultimate purpose of the
great plan of happiness, I believe that the ultimate treasures on earth and in
heaven are our children and our posterity." Elder Dallin H. Oaks
99) "Arguments . . . will come at you in classrooms and hallways, in what you read,
and in what you see in popular entertainment. Many in the world deny the need
for a Savior. Others deny that there is any right or wrong, and they scoff at the
idea of sin or a devil. Still others rely on the mercy of God and ignore His justice.
. . . Be not deceived. . . Heed the ancient and modern prophetic warnings against
thievery, drunkenness, and all forms of sexual sin. The deceiver seeks to destroy
your spirituality by all of these means. . . . Beware of the slick package and the
glitz of a good time. What the devil portrays as fun can be spiritually fatal." Elder
Oaks

-President Tomas S. Monson-

Monson-
100) “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what else is heaven for?”
President Tomas S. Monson
101) “Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only
at his burdens.” Thomas S. Monson
102) “The past is behind; learn from it. The future is ahead; prepare for it. The
present is here; live in it!” President Monson
103) “It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege—even our sacred
opportunity—to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace
our lives.” President Monson
104) “God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our
availability, and if we then prove our dependability, He will increase our
capability.” President Monson
105) “So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things,
when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.” President
Monson
106) “No plan. No objective. No goal. The road to anywhere is the road to
nowhere, and the road to nowhere leads to dreams sacrificed, opportunities
squandered, and a life unfulfilled.” President Monson
107) “The years have come and the years have gone, but the need for a
testimony of the gospel continues paramount.” President Monson
108) “Nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal, fervent prayer
and its heaven-sent response.” President Monson
109) “I declare my personal witness that death has been conquered, victory
over the tomb has been won. May the words made sacred by Him who fulfilled
them become actual knowledge to all. . . . He is risen.” President Monson
110) “The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly
Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His
divine power to save.” President Monson
111) “Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power. You can pray with
purpose when you realize who you are and what Heavenly Father wants you to
become.” President Monson
112) “The decision to change one's life and come unto Christ is, perhaps, the
most important decision of mortality.” President Monson
113) “Wherever we may be, our Heavenly Father can hear and answer the
prayer offered in faith.” President Monson
114) “Genius comes like inspiration in a single moment.” President Tomas S.
Monson
115) “Mediocrity is not is style. Excellence is the order of the day.” President
Tomas S. Monson
116) “Ideals should be like the stars. We can never reach them but they guide
us.” President Tomas S. Monson
117) “We must not let our yearnings exceed our earnings.” President Tomas S.
Monson
118) “The Holy Ghost teaches from the pulpit of our memory.” President
Monson
119) “The greatest gift is the smile of God’s approval.” President Monson
120) “I’ve learned that when we heed on a small prompting to discover that the
Lord has answered another’s prayer through you.” President Monson
121) “It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege—even our sacred
opportunity—to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace
our lives.” President Monson
122) “I love the sacred music of the Church. The hymns of the Restoration
carry an inspiration and a protection.” President Monson
123) “Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so
dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue.”
President Monson
124) “Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of
ourselves:” President Monson
125) “Brethren, acquire the language of the Spirit. It is not learned from
textbooks written by men of letters, nor is it acquired through reading and
memorization. The language of the Spirit comes to him who seeks with all his
heart to know God and keep His divine commandments. Proficiency in the
"language" permits one to breach barriers, overcome obstacles, and touch the
human heart.” President Monson
126) “Let us remember that after the funeral flowers fade, the well wishes of
friends become memories and the prayers offered and words spoken dim in the
corridors of the mind. Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone.”
President Monson
127) “Truth must not be excused with expedience.” President Monson
128) “It is well to remember that he gives money gives much, he who gives time
gives more, but he who gives of himself gives all.” President Monson
129) “Jesus invites us to give of ourselves: 'Behold, the Lord requireth the heart
and a willing mind.' Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless,
but they are also perishable.” President Monson
130) “In sickness, with its attendant pain, patience is required. If the only
perfect man who ever lived—even Jesus of Nazareth—was called upon to
endure great suffering, how can we, who are less than perfect, expect to be free
 of such challenges?” President Thomas S. Monson ("Patience—A Heavenly
Virtue," Ensign, Nov. 1995, p. 59)
131) “Vision with out effort is daydreaming, effort without vision is drudgery, but
vision coupled with effort will obtain the prize.” President Monson
132) “The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely
determines what we do when we leave there.” President Thomas S. Monson
133) “The greatest battles are fought within the silent chambers of our soul.”
President Thomas Monson
134) “Remember, the adversary tread the floor of the grove tempting and
hindering Joseph before it became sacred.” President Monson
135) “Fill your minds with truth. Fill your hearts with love.” President Monson
136) “Choose your love, Love your choice.” President Thomas S Monson
137) “Work will win when wishy washy wishing won’t.” President Thomas S
Monson
138) “Our Heavenly Father lives. Jesus Christ the Lord is our Savior and
Redeemer. . . . That we may shoulder our sorrows, bear our burdens, and face
our fears – as did our Savior – is my prayer. I know that He lives.” President
Thomas S. Monson
139) “Through humble prayer, diligent preparation, and faithful service, we can
succeed in our sacred callings.” President Thomas S. Monson
140) “Let the scriptures be your guide, and you will never find yourself traveling
the road to nowhere.” President Thomas S. Monson
141) “I've done a lot of reading in matters pertaining to business in seeking
certain degrees, and you learn by reading, but you learn more when you have a
model, a role model, to follow. And you learn more about how to get along in this
world from President Hinckley than you will with all the books that you may read.”
President Thomas S. Monson (speaking of President Hinckley at his birthday
party in SLC on June 25, 2005)
142) “He does not take counsel of his fears. That's the mark of a leader.
Number two: he does not rush to judgment. Number three: he dreams great
dreams and dares to live them. Finally, he personifies the saying "Consistency,
thou art a jewel.” President Thomas S. Monson (speaking of President Hinckley
at his birthday party in SLC on June 25, 2005)
143) "Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls,
and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions are
constantly before us. To make them wisely, courage is needed: the courage to
say, 'No,' the courage to say, 'Yes,' Decisions do determine destiny. The call for
courage comes constantly to each of us. It has ever been so, and so shall it ever
be." President Monson
144) "It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do
people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny." President Monson
145) "Those who have felt the touch of the Master's hand somehow cannot
explain the change which comes into their lives. There is a desire to live better, to
serve faithfully, to walk humbly, and to be more like the Savior. Having received
their spiritual eyesight and glimpsed the promises of eternity, they echo the
 words of the blind man to whom Jesus restored sight: 'One thing I know, that,
whereas I was blind, now I see' (John 9:25)." President Monson
146) "Each of us should remember that he or she is a son or daughter of God,
endowed with faith, gifted with courage, and guided by prayer. Our eternal
destiny is before us. . . . At times many of us let that enemy of achievement--
even the culprit 'self-defeat'--dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud
our vision, and impair our lives. The enemy's voice whispers in our ears, 'You
can't do it.' 'You're too young.' 'You're too old.' 'You're nobody.' This is when we
remember that we are created in the image of God. Reflection on this truth
provides a profound sense of strength and power." President Monson
147) “There is one phrase which should be erased from your thinking and from
the words you speak aloud. It is the phrase 'If only.' It is counterproductive and is
not conducive to the spirit of healing and of peace. Rather, recall the words of
Proverbs: 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.’”
President Monson
148) “Frequently death comes as an intruder. It is an enemy that suddenly
appears in the midst of life's feast, putting out its lights and gaiety. It visits the
aged as they walk on faltering feet. Its summons is heard by those who have
scarcely reached midway in life's journey, and often it hushes the laughter of little
children.” President Monson
149) “So universal is its application, so beneficial its result, that prayer qualifies
as the number hallmark of a happy home. As parents listen to the prayer of a
child, they too draw close to God.” Thomas Monson

-President Boyd K. Packer-

Packer-
150) “It is quite another to have the spirit confirm to you in your bosom that
what you have testified is true.” President Boyd K. Packer
151) “The entire world with all its power and glory pales in comparison with the
simple unadorned testimony of the Son of God.” President Boyd K. Packer
152) “Some things that ought to be put in order are not put in order because
you can’t control them.” President Packer
153) “If you weren’t happy all the time, you might wonder what’s wrong; why
don’t you wonder what is right.” President Packer
154) “If you are one who's been wandering off course, now is the time to return.
You can, you know.” President Packer
155) “The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker
than talking about behavior.” President Packer
156) “You are a child of God. He is the Father of your spirit. Spiritually you are
of noble birth, the offspring of the King of Heaven. Fix that truth in your mind and
hold to it. However many generations your mortal ancestry, no matter what race
of people you represent, the pedigree of your spirit can be written on a single
line, you are a child of God.” President Packer
157) “The Lord is voting for me and the adversary is voting against me...but it’s
my vote that counts.” President Packer
158) “Beware of any sinspiration you may receive.” President Packer
159) “The body is the instrument of your mind and the foundation of your
character.” President Packer
160) “You are young and I am not. I have been where you have been but
where I have been you have not.” President Packer
161) “Attending Church is, or should be, a respite from the pressures of
everyday life. It should bring peace and contentment.” President Packer
162) “Every soul confined to a concentration camp of sin and guilt has a key to
the gate. The adversary cannot hold them if they know how to use it. The key is
labeled Repentance.” President Packer
163) “Reverence invites inspiration.” President Packer
164) “The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker
than talking about behavior.” President Packer
165) “Freedom of choice (free agency) does not mean we can choose what we
want. It means we can choose what God wants for us.” President Packer
166) “Temple and genealogical work there is nothing more conductive to
spiritual refinement or nothing that better helps us to sharpen our spiritual
sensitivities.” President Packer
167) “Remember you cannot force spiritual things. We may not be doing
anything wrong, we just may not be doing the right long enough.” President
Packer
168) “A testimony is to be found in the bearing of it.” President Packer
169) “We have a dual-alarm system built in us: the body being pain, the spirit
being guilt.” President Boyd K. Packer
170) “The gospel is the sure way to happiness.” President Boyd K. Packer
171) “Faith is not heavy. It lifts and carries us over hard places.” President
Boyd K. Packer
172) “In the home it is a partnership with husband and wife equally yoked
together, sharing in decisions, always working together.” President Packer
173) “I know my Christ lives but even more than that I know my Christ.”
President Packer
174) “How wise is the man who looks for potential instead of perfection.”
President Packer
175) “No teaching is equal, more spiritually rewarding, or more exalting than
that of a mother teaching her children.” President Boyd K. Packer
176) “We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the
philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything,
including instant solutions to our problems. We are indoctrinated that somehow
we should always be instantly emotionally comfortable. When that is not so,
some become anxious—and all to frequently seek relief from counseling, from
analysis, and even from medication. It was meant to be that life would be a
challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointments,
even some failure is normal.” President Boyd K Packer
177) “I bear witness of the Lord Jesus Christ. He lives. He is our Redeemer and
is our Savior. He presides over this Church. He is no stranger to His servants
here.” President Boyd K. Packer
178) “Things we cannot solve, we must survive.” President Boyd K. Packer
(Ensign, November 1987, page 18)
179) “There is so much difference between teaching missionaries what they are
to do as compared to concentrating on what they are to be. The first will make a
salesman of them. The second will produce a saint.” President Boyd K. Packer
180) “When we begin to analyze ourselves, and look to improve ourselves as
teachers, what better model could we find? What finer study could we undertake
then to analyze our ideals and goals and methods and compare them with those
of Jesus Christ?” President Boyd K. Packer
181) “It was never intended that one man held the priesthood.” President Boyd
K. Packer
182) “Never neglect your faith.” President Boyd K. Packer
183) “Marriage provides shelter for the child who enters mortality innocent and
helpless. Marriage ensures security and happiness for parents as well.”
President Boyd K. Packer
184) “And they all lived happily ever after never comes in the second act of a
third act play.” President Boyd K. Packer (“The Play and the Plan”)
185) “No service in the Church or in the community transcends that given in the
home.” President Boyd K. Packer
186) "For more than 40 years, my wife and I have traveled over the earth. We
know members of the Church in perhaps a hundred countries. We have felt the
power in their simple faith. Their individual testimonies and their sacrifice have
had a profound effect on us. . . . The great work of moving the gospel forward
has in the past, does now, and will in the future depend upon ordinary members."
President Packer
187) "Some worry endlessly over missions that were missed, or marriages that
did not turn out, or babies that did not arrive, or children that seem lost, or
dreams unfulfilled, or because age limits what they can do. I do not think it
pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that
what we do is never good enough. Some needlessly carry a heavy burden of
guilt which could be removed through confession and repentance." President
Packer
188) “When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of
Mormon and read. Do not let too much time pass before reading a verse, a
thought, or a chapter.” President Boyd K. Packer, Ensign, May 2005, 8
189) “No man achieves the supernal exalting status of worthy fatherhood
except as a gift from his wife.” President Boyd K. Packer

-Elder Neal A. Maxwell-

Maxwell- (1922-
(1922-2004)
190) “When from Thy stern tutoring, I would quickly flee, Turn me from my
Tarshish, To where is best for me. Help me in my Nineveh, To serve with love
and truth-Not on a hillside posted, Mid shade of gourd or booth. When my
modest suffering seems, So vexing, wrong, and sore, May I recall what freely
flowed, From each and every pore. Dear Lord of the Abba Cry, Help me in my
duress, To endure it well enough, And to say, . . . “Nevertheless.” Elder Neal A.
Maxwell (I love this one.)
191) “Mortality, this precious micro-dot on the canvas of eternity, is such a brief
moment. While in it, we are to prepare ourselves for the time when there will be
no time.” Elder Maxwell
192) “Can we tell the Savior anything about suffering?” Elder Maxwell
193) “Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus.” Elder
Maxwell
194) “Art is the ability to see things as they really are and not as they appear to
be.” Elder Neal Maxwell
195) “If you have not chosen the kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no
difference what you have chosen instead.” Elder Maxwell
196) “In certain times and circumstances, discipleship will require us to stand
alone. Our willingness to do so here and now is consistent with Christ kneeling
alone there and then; in the final atoning process, none were with Him.” Elder
Maxwell
197) “Sometimes in life we can mistake local, low passing cloud cover for
general darkness.” Elder Maxwell
198) “Repentance takes care of the past, faith the future, and the Holy Ghost
helps us with today.” Elder Maxwell
199) “He who notes the sparrow’s fall will not abandon the servants need.”
Elder Maxwell
200) “The heaviest load we feel is often from the weight of our unkept promises
and unresolved sins, which press down relentless upon us.” Elder Maxwell
201) “Suffering is the sweat of salvation.” Elder Maxwell
202) “Hearts set so much upon the things of this world are hearts so set they
must first be broken.” Elder Maxwell
203) “The LDS scholar has his citizenship in the Kingdom, but carries his
passport into the professional world-not the other way around.” Elder Maxwell
204) “The sobering indication “All these things shall give thee experience, and
shall be for thy good” (D&C 122:7) tells us that while we are doctrinally rich, we
are usually experience poor. God’s plan is designed to correct the latter
deficiency; one’s soul shivers, however, as one contemplates the implications.”
Elder Maxwell
205) “Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving
the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.” Elder
Maxwell
206) “God gives us breath to blaspheme as well as to praise him. Because he
is a loving Father, he gives us muscles to smile or to sneer.” Elder Maxwell
207) “Our submissiveness to the Lord must be real, not only the equivalent of
obeying the speed limit only as long as the highway patrolman is there in his
pace car.” Elder Maxwell
208) “Our self-esteem is stretched, however, only as we are stretched, and true
humility includes believing in and exploring our own possibilities.” Elder Maxwell
209) “Brothers and sisters, preferred to periodic miracles is having the Holy
Ghost as a 'constant companion'.” Elder Maxwell
210) “We must be willing to let our gears of commitment be hammered and
shaped so that they mesh with life's opportunities in ways that are crucial.” Elder
Maxwell
211) “Individuals and nations will continue to choose what they want, but they
cannot alter the ultimate consequences of what they want.” Elder Maxwell
212) “In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.”
Elder Maxwell
213) “Mortal experience points evermore to the Atonement of Jesus Christ as
the central act of all human history. The more I learn and experience, the more
unselfish, stunning, and encompassing His Atonement becomes.” Elder Maxwell
214) “Hope is realistic anticipation which takes the form of a determination—not
only to survive adversity but, moreover, to 'endure . . . well' to the end (D&C
121:8).” Elder Maxwell
215) “In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on
the straight and narrow way.” Elder Maxwell
216) “The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling but some
excavating.” Elder Maxwell
217) “It is the only pathway where littering is permissible, even encouraged.”
Elder Maxwell (What makes it so hard to stay on the straight and narrow path are
the unneeded things we carry in our backpacks.)
218) “Believe in order to understand, rather than understand in order to
believe.” Elder Maxwell
219) “Jesus knows how to succor us in the midst of our griefs and sicknesses
precisely because Jesus has already borne our griefs and sicknesses (see Alma
7:11–12).” Elder Maxwell
220) “The church is a hospital for the sinners, not a country club for the near
perfect.” Elder Maxwell
221) “The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can
truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He
thinks best? The same is true with the second coming and with all those matters
wherein our faith needs to include faith in the Lord’s timing for us personally, not
just in His overall plans and purposes.” Elder Maxwell
222) “Since faith in the timing of the Lord may be tried, let us learn to say not
only, ‘Thy will be done,’ but patiently also, ‘Thy timing be done.’” Elder Maxwell
223) “Though real and dangerous, the gulf of misery is not the whole ocean.”
Elder Maxwell
224) “God is very serious about the joy of His children! Why should we be
surprised? God desires us to become more like Him so we can go home to Him.
He is a perfect Father!” Elder Maxwell
225) “We will never find him ‘asking us to do what he has not done’ or ‘asking
us to endure what he has not endured.” Elder Maxwell (Mosiah 3:5-10)
226) “. . . thank Christ for the tender times, the jarring times, the perplexing
times, and even for the times when (his) learning is so very painfully public.”
Elder Maxwell
227) “Never has anyone offered so much in so many few words as when Jesus
said, ‘Here am I, send me.’” Elder Maxwell
228) “No son ever complimented his Father so gracefully, honored his Father
so constantly, or trusted his Father so completely as did Jesus.” Elder Maxwell
229) “Christ combined his long view of our needs with a short step forward to
volunteer his services.” Elder Maxwell
230) “Christ partook voluntarily of the bitter cup in the awful, but for him
avoidable, atonement-we must, therefore, drink from our tiny cups.” Elder
Maxwell
231) “Although Christ never needed it, he gave us what we desperately
needed-that program of progress-repentance.” Elder Maxwell
232) “(Christ gave us) . . . the example of rising above his beginnings . . . he
was raised in a lowly town.” Elder Maxwell
233) “Just as it is not possible to save an individual against his will, so
blessings do not come against our wills.” Elder Maxwell
234) “True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the
Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.”
Elder Maxwell
235) “I have not seen any perspiration-free shortcuts to the celestial kingdom;
there is no easy escalator to take us there.” Elder Maxwell
236) “You and I should count our blessings, but we should also make them
count!” Elder Maxwell
237) “If the choice is between reforming other Church members [including
fiancés, fiancées, spouses, children] or ourselves, is there really any question
about where we should begin? The key is to have our eyes wide open to our own
faults and partially closed to the faults of others--not the other way around! The
imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own
shortcomings.” Elder Maxwell
238) “If one is devoid of hope and thanksgiving, he cannot for long remain
sinless, for he will, in despair, have slackened his resolve. Feelings of futility
foster vulnerability. Self-pity is such a busy stagehand, rearranging the scenery
to help sin make its entrance. No wonder the prophets say that without faith in
the Lord, there is no hope.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
239) “During our mortal schooling in submissiveness, we will see the visible
crosses that some carry, but other crosses will go unseen. A few individuals may
appear to have no trials at all, which, if it were so, would be a trial in itself.
Indeed, if, as do trees, our souls had rings to measure the years of greatest
personal growth, the wide rings would likely reflect the years of greatest
moisture—but from tears, not rainfall.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell (We Will Prove
Them Herewith, p.7)
240) “Ah, the arrogant arm of flesh, like the quarterback whose arm was so
strong it was boasted that he could throw a football through a car wash and it
would come out dry on the other side! Such naïveté, such triviality symbolize not
only the arm, but also the mind of flesh, which misses “things as they really are,
and … things as they really will be” (Jacob 4:13).” Elder Maxwell
241) “While most of our suffering is self-inflicted, some is caused by
or, permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep submissiveness,
especially when God does not remove the cup from us. In such circumstances,
 when reminded about the pre-mortal shouting for joy as this life's plan was
unfolded (see Job 38: 7), we can perhaps be pardoned if, in some moments, we
wonder what all the shouting was about.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
242) “For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our
darkest hours.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
243) “By seeing life's experiences through to the end, on our small scale, we
can finally say, as Jesus did on the cross, "It is Finished." We, too, can then have
"finished our preparations," having done the particular work God has given each
of us to do. However, our tiny cup cannot be taken from us either. For this reason
have we come into the world.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
244) “When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give.
We can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly,
placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to fail or to be wicked. Let
us remember that we were measured before and were found equal to our tasks;
therefore, let us continue, but with a more determined discipleship. When we feel
overwhelmed, let us recall the assurance that God will not over-program us; he
will not press upon us more than we can bear.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
245) “Mortality presents us with numerous opportunities to become more
Christlike: first, by coping successfully with those of life's challenges which are
"common to man[kind]" (1 Cor. 10:13). In addition, there are also our customized
trials such as experiencing illness, aloneness, persecution, betrayal, irony,
poverty, false witness, unreciprocated love, etc.. If endured well now, "all these
things" can be for our good and can "greatly enlarge the soul," including an
enlarged capacity for joy (D&C 122:7; 121:42). Meek suffering often does the
excavating necessary for that enlarging!” Elder Neal A. Maxwell (October 1997
General Conference)
246) “Uncertainty as to world conditions does not justify moral uncertainty, and
distracting churn will not cover our sins nor dim God's all-seeing-eye.
Furthermore, military victories are no substitute for winning our individual wars for
self-control. Nor do the raging, human hatreds lessen God's perfect and
redeeming love for all His children.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
247) “It is up to us. God will facilitate, but He will not force.” Elder Maxwell
248) “Only by educating and training our desires can they become our allies
instead of our enemies!” Elder Maxwell
249) “Remember, brothers and sisters, it is our own desires, which determine
the sizing and the attractiveness of various temptations. We set our thermostats
as to temptations.” Elder Maxwell
250) “Brothers and sisters, a loving God will work with us, but the initiating
particle of desire which ignites the spark of resolve must be our own!” Elder
Maxwell
251) “Amid the volatile and vexing cares of the world, let us, as instructed, care
for the life of the soul. Thanks to Jesus' glorious atonement, the life of that
immortal soul outlasts the stretching longevity of any star, and, hence the short
span of passing mortal events, even if grim.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
252) “We can learn to serve and to forgive within our sample of humanity,
including settings no larger than the family or friendships.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
253) “When we speak about teaching by the Spirit it is not about a mystical
process which removes responsibility from the missionary . . . for prayerful and
pondering preparation. Teaching by the Spirit is not the lazy equivalent of going
on ‘automatic pilot.’ We still need a carefully worked out ‘flight plan’ . . . The Lord
is especially willing to take the lead of an already informed mind in which things
have been ‘studied out.’” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
254) “Only when what and who he is begins to dawn more fully upon us – and
to fill us with awe instead of respect – we will really follow him.” Elder Neal A.
Maxwell
255) “Being valiant in one’s testimony of Jesus includes striving to become
more like Him in mind, heart and attributes.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
256) “The only real veneration of Jesus is emulation of Him. Indeed, striving to
become like Him is a special way of bearing and sharing our testimony of Him.”
Elder Neal A. Maxwell
257) “How can we expect to enjoy eternally that which we reject in mortality.”
Elder Neal A. Maxwell
258) “Discipleship is our days, as in all eras, has as a goal not our being
different from other men, but our need to be morel like God.” Elder Neal A.
Maxwell
259) “Some insist upon seeing the church through the eyes of its defectors
260) “Led by Judas there came thither that band of men with lanterns and
torches. So spiritually blind was the multitude they actually needed lanterns to
see and capture the ‘light of the world’.” Elder Maxwell (“Meek and Lowly” – BYU
Devotional; 1986)
261) “Coincidences are miracles where the Lord chooses to remain
anonymous.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
262) “My life must constitute my call.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
263) “As much light as we can bear, He will give us.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
264) “Humans indifference to God, not God’s indifference to man, accounts for
so much suffering.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
265) “Only reform and self-restraint, institutional and individual, can finally
rescue society! Only a sufficient number of sin-resistant souls can change the
marketplace. As Church members we should be part of that sin-resistant
counterculture.” Neal A. Maxwell
266) “When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give,
we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed
us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to or to be wicked. When we have
been weighed and found wanting, let us remember that we were measured
before and we were found equal to our tasks; and, therefore, let us continue, but
with a more determined discipleship. When we feel overwhelmed, let us recall
the assurance that God will not overprogram us; he will not press upon us more
that we can bear.” Neal A. Maxwell (D&C 50:40)
267) “A full understanding is impossible; we simply have to trust in what the
Lord had told us, knowing enough, however, to realize that we are not dealing
with guarantees from God but extra opportunities – and heavier responsibilities.”
Neal A. Maxwell (D&C 130:20-21)
 268) “So spiritually blind was the multitude, they actually needed lanterns to
see and capture the ‘Light of the World’.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
269) “There appears no other to be ‘no other way’ to learn certain things except
through the relevant, clinical experiences. Happily, the commandment, ‘take my
yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart’ (Matthew
11:29) carries an accompanying and compensating promise from Jesus – ‘and
yes shall find rest unto your souls.’ This is a very special form of rest. It surely
includes the rest resulting from the shedding of certain needless burdens:
fatiguing insincereity, exhausting hypocrisy, and the strength-sapping quest for
recognition, praise, and power. Those of us who fall short, in one way or another,
often do so because we carry such unnecessary and heavy baggage. Being this
overloaded, we sometimes stumble and then feel sorry for ourselves.” Elder Neal
A. Maxwell
270) “Some insist upon studying the Church only through the eyes of its
defectors – like interviewing Judas to understand Jesus. Defectors always tell us
more about themselves than about that from which they have departed.” Elder
Neal A. Maxwell
271) “In some ways, our second estate, in relationship to our first estate, is like
agreeing in advance to surgery. Then the anesthetic of forgetfulness settles in
upon us. Just as doctors do not de-anesthetize a patient in the midst of
authorized surgery to ask him again if the surgery should be continued, so, after
divine tutoring, we agreed once to come here and to submit ourselves to certain
experiences and have no occasion to revoke that decision.” Elder Neal A.
Maxwell
272) “It is very important that we not assume the perspective of mortality in
making the decisions that bear on eternity.” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
273) “God created and had a perfect church until he put humans in it.” Neal A.
Maxwell
274) “Again, there can be no agency avoidance. No decision is a decision.
Delay is a delusion, and that delay always discards the holy present. It simply
throws it away.” Neal A. Maxwell

-Excerpts from Elder Maxwell’s – “Free to Choose?”

(He gave this address on March 16, 2004; final BYU address before he passed away)
275) “God bless you, my young friends, in your daily choices, in the inflections
of your decisions, and in the thoughts that traverse your minds. May there be for
all of us, including myself, an alignment with Him that brings us home. Hence
where, as He says, He will give us “all that he hath” (Luke 12:44). There isn’t any
more – of which I testify in the Jesus Christ, amen.” Neal A. Maxwell (this is his
last paragraph of his last talk he ever gave at BYU before he passed away on
June 24, 2004)
276) “Again, there can be no agency avoidance. No decision is a decision.
Delay is a delusion, and that delay always discards the holy present. It simply
throws it away.” Neal A. Maxwell
277) “It is matched by what the Lord of the vineyard can justifiably say at the
end of the salvational day. Reading these words often makes me weep. As He
 surveyed all that He had tried to do – leaving us free – and all the yield that might
have been, and having given us our freedom to choose, He, the Lord of the
vineyard, tenderly asked: ‘What could I have done more?’” (Jacob 5:47) Neal A.
Maxwell
278) “. . . Thus his very temptations become vexing verifications that we’re free
to choose.” (D&C 29:39) Neal A. Maxwell
279) “One cannot say, however, on that naïve plane of understanding very long
when he or she reads these next sobering words. They are so ripe with
implications. They inform us that some rebels are simply “not willing to enjoy that
which they might have received” (D&C 88:32). That cold wind is really blowing at
the edges of my mind now. Foregoing enjoyment? But why? Knowingly turning
down something better? Why?” Neal A. Maxwell
280) “Could the further education of my desires be the most important form of
continuing education?” Neal A. Maxwell
281) “So it is that the chilly dawn of realization is further felt: Real choosing
bristles with alternatives, enticements, defining moments, accountability,
counterfeits, and consequences.” Neal A. Maxwell

-Excerpts from Elder Maxwell’s “The Pathway of Discipleship ”-

282) “Colleen has been wonderful as a nurturer and as an encourager – in the
last year in particular.” Neal A. Maxwell (speaking of his wife in the heat of his
cancer – these two traits are something to look for in a woman to be your wife)
283) “”So let us focus tonight on our shared discipleship amid this shared
mortal experience – a subject dear to my heart and about which I know a little
more than I did a year ago.” Neal A. Maxwell (a year ago he was contracted with
cancer . . . what does that say about learning; about trials; about discipleship?)
284) “Nevertheless, as striving disciples, our strategic focus must fall on the
interaction of immortal individuals and immortal principles as applied to life’s
changing tactical situations. It is vital, therefore, for you an me, in the words of
Jacob, to see things “as they really are” and things “as they really will be” (Jacob
4:13). It’s interesting that those who have eyes single to the glory of God are
those who know the most of reality.” Neal A. Maxwell
285) “But this road of discipleship about which we are speaking tonight is not
easy. It requires sturdy, all-weather souls who are constant in every season of
life and who are not easily stalled or thrown off course.” Neal A. Maxwell
286) “Of course, there are going to be puzzling moments. Nephi, paralleling
what Brigham Young said, had this reaction when he was perplexed: ‘I know that
[God] loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things’ (1
Nephi 11:17). We cannot always fully or glibly explain everything that is
happening to us or around us, but knowing that God loves us is absolutely
crucial. Then, as immortals possessed of immortal principles, we can overcome
the mortal trials and we can put the pressing things of the day in precious
perspective.” Neal A. Maxwell
287) “Another thing will happen: We will become much more aware of and alive
to the many possibilities for doing good that re present in life’s daily situations.
 Even the moments that seem humdrum are full of possibilities. Nothing is really
routine.” Neal A. Maxwell
288) “True disciples are meek but very determined.” Neal A. Maxwell
289) “A customized commandment thus came for that man. It was. It was
something he needed to do, not something he needed to stop doing, that kept
him from wholeness.” Neal A. Maxwell

-Excerpts from Elder Maxwell’s “Things as They Really Are”-

290) “Jesus’ brief stumbling while carrying the cross is a reminder as to how
close to the very edge of our strength God stretches us at times.” Elder Maxwell
291) “The prompt response to reality (things as they really are) is soul-efficient
– not in the sense of shoulder-shrugging acceptance, but in getting underway not
with what must eventually be. Appreciative affirmation of these central realities is
the mark of the astute, while tardy acknowledgment is the response of the naïve,
the proud or the wicked.” Elder Maxwell
292) “A course of life that is wrong now cannot and will not be proven right
later.” Elder Maxwell
293) “The choice is ours as between joyful reality and artificiality with its plastic
pleasures. It is a choice that must be made not once, but it must also be
reaffirmed everyday and even every moment.” Elder Maxwell
294) “The ways of this world are, in fact, alien to the better world he (a disciple)
seeks to prepare for . . . for to be too quick to adjust to the ways of this world is to
be maladjusted for the next. It is vital to know, therefore, about things as they
really are.” Elder Maxwell
295) “With true perspective comes a sense of proportion about life. Proportion
would help us with our priorities. For instance, clearly one would not forgo
partaking of the sacrament because he is trying to lose weight, yet some neglect
the scriptures because they are too busy minding the cares of the world.” Elder
Maxwell

-Elder Tom Perry-

Perry-
296) “God, in His divine plan, ordained marriage to bring about His basic
organizational unit-the family.” Elder Tom Perry
297) “Second only to the importance of being eternal companions is being an
earthly parent.” Elder Tom Perry
298) “The Holy Ghost will be our constant companion if we submit ourselves to
the will of our Father in Heaven, always remembering Him and keeping His
commandments.” Elder Perry
299) “It is in the hidden corners of our lives where there are things that only we
know about that we must be particularly thorough to ensure that we are clean.”
Elder Perry
300) “Fundamental to becoming good teachers is serious study of the word of
the Lord, that we are able to impart our acquired knowledge to others.” Elder
Perry
301) “The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a
pleasant disposition, an even temperament.” Elder Perry
302) “We should prepare ourselves through obedience to God’s
commandments, that our confidence will wax strong when we call upon the
Lord.” Elder Perry
303) “We divinely have been called to be good mothers and fathers.” Elder
Perry
304) “In our hearts do we feel a sense of gratitude and devotion to the Father?
Are we of one heart with Him to whom we owe everything? The test of our
devotion to the Lord seems to be the way we serve Him.” Elder Perry
305) “Have we preserved for our children the great stories of how the gospel
was brought to and accepted by those early members of our families?” Elder
Perry
306) “Do we look to the scriptures as a source of great spiritual power? If not,
we are missing a wonderful opportunity for spiritual nourishment and strength.”
Elder Perry
307) “What we do need to do is live worthy of the continued companionship of
the Holy Ghost and have the courage to follow the promptings that come into our
lives.” Elder Perry
308) “The Holy Ghost will be our constant companion if we submit ourselves to
the will of our Father in Heaven, always remembering Him and keeping His
commandments.” Elder L. Tom Perry
309) “It is in the hidden corners of our lives where there are things that only we
know about that we must be particularly thorough to ensure that we are clean.”
Elder L. Tom Perry
310) “I challenge you to stand up to your peers as an example of righteous
living.” Elder L. Tom Perry
311) “Salvation is not in facilities or technology, but in the word. Only in the
power of the word will it impact our lives and help us to live closer to our Father in
Heaven.” Elder L. Tom Perry; Ensign, May 2000, 25

-Elder David B. Haight-

Haight-
312) “As I listened to that pleading song (“O Divine Redeemer”) with that
wonderful melody, I silently asked the Savior to accept me as I am and
remember not my failures, my shortcomings, and my sins.” Elder David B. Haight
313) “I would remind all of you that if we’re ever going to show gratitude
properly to our Heavenly Father, we should do it with all of our heart, might, mind
and strength-because it was He who gave us life and breath.” Elder Haight
314) “Brothers and sisters, live the commandments. Do what is right. Take
advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have
good works, and to influence other people for good.” Elder Haight
315) “I hope that we have grateful hearts for the knowledge that we have and
the testimonies we have and for the feelings we have.” Elder Haight
316) “Life is wonderful if we live the simple principles that we have been taught
and if we live the way that we know we should live” Elder Haight
317) “As I get older I find that my vision improves, that I see the larger picture
more clearly as time goes on.” Elder Haight
318) “How do we demonstrate to the Savior the love we have for Him?
Wouldn’t it be through our obedience and through our service?” Elder Haight
(likewise to our parents and spouses.)
319) “Where we find the answer to our challenges and our problems would be
as we listen to the voice of the prophet—God’s prophet here upon the earth.”
Elder Haight
320) “Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be
good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good.” Elder Haight
321) “God lives. He is our Father. We are His children. He loves us.” Elder
Haight
322) “I hope that we have grateful hearts for the knowledge that we have and
the testimonies we have and for the feelings we have.” Elder Haight
323) “The only real gift is a portion of one’s self.” Elder Haight
324) “Our challenge is not the message, it is the messenger. It is how we look
and how we act and how we feel about the message.” Elder Haight

-Elder Robert D. Hales-

Hales-
325) “Pay your tithing. Unlock the windows of heaven. You will be abundantly
blessed for you obedience and faithfulness to the Lord’s laws and
commandments.” Elder Robert D. Hales
326) “The temporal and spiritual blessings of tithing are specifically tailored to
us and our families, according to the Lord’s will.” Elder Robert D. Hales
327) “Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our
families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.” Elder Hales
328) “How we treat our family members, our neighbors, business associates,
and all we meet will reveal if we have taken His name upon us and do always
remember Him.” Elder Hales
329) “We need to spend our time and energy building our faith by turning to the
Lord and asking for strength to overcome the pains and trials of this world.” Elder
Hales
330) “We have to keep the commandments and conduct ourselves in such a
way that our families will want to live with us in the eternities.” Elder Hales
331) “The gift of the Holy Ghost, given to us when we are confirmed, gives us
the ability to discern the difference between the giving ways of the kingdom of
God and the taking practices of the world.” Elder Hales
332) “The Lord has given you everything. Including the air which you breathe.”
Elder Hales
333) “Everyone has something they must learn to master. Some are just more
obvious than others.” Elder Hales
334) “Often we do not know what we can endure until after a trial of our faith.”
Elder Robert D. Hales (Ensign, May 1998, pg. 76)
335) “Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by
God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are the moments when we
have to I turn to Christ and endure.” Elder Robert D. Hales
336) “By choosing to be in His kingdom, we separate—not isolate—ourselves
from the world.” Elder Robert D. Hales
337) "When the challenges of mortality come, and they come for all of us, it
may seem hard to have faith and hard to believe. At these times only faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement can bring us peace, hope, and
understanding. Only faith that He suffered for our sakes will give us the strength
to endure to the end. When we gain this faith, we experience a mighty change of
heart, and like Enos, we become stronger and begin to feel a desire for the
welfare of our brothers and sisters. We pray for them, that they too will be lifted
and strengthened through faith on the Atonement of our Savior Jesus Christ."
Elder Hales
338) “We whose conversion is sufficient must reach out to those who wander.
As we do, we will find great joy in gathering the Lord’s sheep.” Elder Robert D.
Hales, Ensign, May 1997, 82

-Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

Wirthlin-
irthlin-
339) “Only when our faith is aligned with the will of our Heavenly Father will we
be empowered to receive the blessings we seek.” Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
340) “Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see
combines with action that in is absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly
Father.” Elder Wirthlin
341) “It is distressing how eagerly some rush into foolish or unethical behavior,
believing that God will somehow deliver them from the inevitable tragic
consequences of their actions.” Elder Wirthlin
342) "Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal
energies on the things that matter most." Elder Wirthlin
343) “If we live by the Savior's teachings, we will with surety find a safe harbor
in this life and in the eternities to come.” Elder Wirthlin
344) “The Lord has His eye upon you. He loves you. He knows you. He knows
your triumphs and your trials, your successes and your heartaches.” Elder
Wirthlin
345) “Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our
best.” Elder Wirthlin
346) “We need to do all that is in our power to accomplish our goals, and the
Lord will make up the difference.” Elder Wirthlin
347) “In our own storms in life the Savior is our solace and our sanctuary. If we
seek peace, we must come unto Him.” Elder Wirthlin
348) “We will have genuine joy and happiness only as we learn patience.” Elder
Wirthlin
349) “Love is the very essence of the gospel of Christ.” Elder Wirthlin
350) “Kindness is the essence of greatness.” Elder Wirthlin
351) “As a special witness of the name of Jesus Christ in all the world, I
promise you that if you seek the Lord, you will find Him. Ask, and you shall
receive.” Elder Wirthlin
352) “The Lord will never forsake or abandon anyone. You may abandon him,
but he will not abandon you. You never need to feel that you are alone.” Elder
Joseph B. Wirthlin
353) “No one is free from the adversary, anyone can fall into temptation. Even
President Grant prayed so he would not fall into temptation.” Elder Wirthlin
354) “Many . . . suffer heartbreak, loneliness, pain, and setback. These
experiences are a necessary part of the human experience. However, please do
not lose hope in the Savior and His love for you. It is constant. He promised that
He would not leave us comfortless (see John 14:18)." Elder Wirthlin
355) “If you feel that Heavenly Father is not listening to your petitions, ask
yourself if you are listening to the cries of the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the
afflicted all around you.” Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, Ensign, May 2001, 74
356) “Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal
energies on the things that matter most.” Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland-

Holland-
357) “Asking a member to be a missionary is not nearly as crucial as asking a
member to be a member.” Elder Holland
358) “I declare that God has through His Only Begotten Son lifted the famine of
which Amos spoke. I testify that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Bread of Life and a
Well of Living Water springing up unto eternal life.” Elder Holland
359) “Everything in the gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to,
that we can be helped if we truly want it, that we can be made whole, whatever
the problems of the past.” Elder Holland
360) “Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can,
for He is the very source of the light you seek. He does love you, and He knows
your fears. He hears your prayers. He is your Heavenly Father, and surely He
matches with His own, the tears His children shed.” Elder Holland
361) “...and to the faithful what doesn’t come in time will come in eternity.” Elder
Holland
362) “The solutions to life’s problems are always gospel solutions.” Elder
Holland
363) “No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit
from heaven.” Elder Holland
364) “Don’t miss the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.”
Elder Holland
365) “Those who will receive the Lord Jesus Christ as the source of their
salvation will always lie down in green pastures, no matter how barren and bleak
the winter has been.” Elder Holland
366) “What they feel is more important than what they know.” Elder Holland
367) “My flight was delayed and hour and I had a cold. I hope my trials and
tribulations will qualify me to shake hands with Peter, Paul and Brigham.” Elder
Holland
368) “True faith in Jesus Christ has always been linked to sacrifice.” Elder
Holland
369) “Real love is best shown in the how.” Mrs. Browning –“How Do I Love
Thee” Elder Holland
370) “A young person’s developing concept of God centers on characteristics
observed in that child’s earthly parents.” Elder Holland
371) “The Lord does allow darkness and struggle and pain. He often uses it to
call us to him. Using my own children as examples, I've come to know that the
one who is playing happily is so preoccupied with pleasant experiences that he
sometimes may not respond when I call and may even run farther away. “But the
child who has been hurt, or is in pain, seeks me out, comes to me readily, knocks
at my door (if you will), and is anxious for me to help and be healed.” Elder
Jeffrey R. Holland (“In the Thick of Life's Urgencies” “BYU Speeches of the
Year”, 11 September 1984)
372) “Everyone will be tempered and tried. The sun will rise on the evil as well
as the good, and the rains will descend on the just as well as the unjust.
(Matthew 5:45) But a life built on a firm foundation will endure.” Elder Jeffrey R.
Holland (“However Long and Hard the Road,” [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co.,
1985], p. 24)
373) “Closely related to our own obligation to repent is the generosity of letting
others do the same.” Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
374) “Christ and His angels and prophets forever labor to buoy up our spirits,
steady our nerves, calm our hearts, and send us forth with renewed strength and
resolute hope. They wish all to know that 'if God be for us, who can be against
us?' In the world we shall have tribulation, but we are to be of good cheer.” Elder
Jeffrey R. Holland (“The Peaceable Things of the Kingdom” General Conference,
October 1996)
375) “Mothers, we acknowledge and esteem your faith in every footstep.
Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.” Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
(Ensign, May 1997, 35)
376) “Let us never let our faith be difficult to detect.” Elder Holland
377) “Mercy, with its sister virtue forgiveness, is at the very heart of the
Atonement of Jesus Christ and the eternal plan of salvation.” Elder Jeffrey R.
Holland
378) “I have much to do, but if you step up with me we can walk together.”
Elder Holland (see The SOURCE in “Step up and we will walk together”)
379) “Everything in the Gospel teaches us that we can change if we need to,
that we can be helped if we truly want it; that we can be made whole, whatever
the problems of the past.” Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
380) “No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit
from heaven.” Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
381) “No, it is not without a recognition of life’s tempests but fully and directly
because of them that I testify of God’s love and the Savior’s power to calm the
storm. Always remember in that biblical story that He was out there on the water
also, that He faced the worst of it right along with the newest and youngest and
most fearful. Only one who has fought against those ominous waves is justified in
telling us—as well as the sea—to ‘be still.’ Only one who has taken the full brunt
of such adversity could ever be justified in telling us in such times to ‘be of good
 cheer.’ Such counsel is not a jaunty pep talk about the power of positive thinking,
though positive thinking is much needed in the world. No, Christ knows better
than all others that the trials of life can be very deep and we are not shallow
people if we struggle with them. But even as the Lord avoids sugary rhetoric, He
rebukes faithlessness and He deplores pessimism. He expects us to believe!”
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
382) “Don’t give up, boy. Don’t you quit. You keep walking. You keep trying.
There is help and happiness ahead—a lot of it—30 years of it now, and still
counting. You keep your chin up. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and
believe in good things to come.” Elder Holland
383) “Daily taking up the cross is daily denying the physical appetites.” Elder
Jeffrey R. Holland
384) “Gird up your loins and get some gusto.” Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
385) “We must never let fear and the father of fear divert us from faith.” Elder
Jeffrey R. Holland
386) “Only One who was with God, and was God, can answer the deepest and
most urgent questions of our soul.” Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
387) "In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help from both sides of the veil
and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement
strike--and they will--you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be
opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding
at reckless speed to come to our protection. They will always be there, these
armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham's seed." Elder Holland

-President James E. Faust-

Faust-
388) “Sometimes the physical side says give up and lie down but the better half
says ‘Here I am send me.’” President Faust
389) “You have made my life.” President Faust quoting the wife of the hero on
9/11
390) “Going in with, ‘What’s in it for me’ may cost a lot of property, money and
land.” President Faust
391) “Your criticism may be worse that the conduct you are trying to correct.”
President Faust
392) “As sons and daughters of God, we are obligated to develop as many of
our divinely given talents as we can.” President Faust
393) “Obviously there is a great difference between feeling happy at a given
moment and being happy for a lifetime, between having a good time and leading
a good life.” President Faust
394) “How will we endure all things? . . . We shall do so by faith, by unity, and
by following the prophets of God.” President Faust
395) “We need to push down the moral decay.” President Faust
396) “We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to
recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.”
President Faust
397) “May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about
offending the devil.” President Faust
398) “We torture our souls when we think of receiving instead if giving.”
President Faust
399) “Whether we are young or old, single or married, whether we have
children at home or have become empty nesters, family home evening can
increase unity and love in our homes.” President Faust
400) “I did not kiss my wife until we were engaged. But I have been trying to
make up for it ever sense.” President James Faust
401) “Sometimes the physical side says give up and lie down but the better half
says ‘Here I am send me.’” President Faust
402) “We need to rely on the help of our Heavenly Father more than the
comfort from tears.” President Faust
403) “May I suggest a further requisite in the continuing quest to live happily
every hour, every day, every month and every day of our lives. The golden
pathway to happiness is the selfless giving of love-the kind of love that has
concern and interest and some measure of charity for every living soul. Love is
the direct route to the happiness that would enrich and bless our lives and the
lives of others.” James Faust
404) “We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we
are peculiar.” President Faust
405) “Obedience helps us develop the full potential our Heavenly Father
desires for us in becoming celestial beings worthy someday to live in His
presence.” President Faust
406) “We often sit back in the eat, drink and be merry mode and passively
assume that someone else will pick up the slack.” President Faust
407) “Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity and
buffeting. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often
heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be
faithful. The thorns that prick, that stick in the flesh, that hurt, often change lives
which seem robbed of significance and hope. In this way the soul can become
like soft clay in the hands of the Master in building lives of faith, usefulness,
beauty, and strength. For some, the refiner's fire causes a loss of belief and faith
in God, but those with eternal perspective understand that such refining is part of
the perfection process.” President James E. Faust (April 1979 General
Conference)
408) “There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day.
They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.” President James E.
Faust (Ensign, May 1979, page 59)
409) “Here then is a great truth... In the pain, the agony, and the heroic
endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the
unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright,
intact, and strong. In this way the divine image can be mirrored from the soul. It is
part of the purging toll extracted of some to become acquainted with God. In the
agonies of life, we seem to listen better to the faint, godly whisperings of the
Divine Shepherd.” President James E. Faust
410) “There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day.
They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.” President James E.
Faust
411) “In the many trials of life, when we feel abandoned and when sorrow, sin,
disappointment, failure, and weakness make us less than we should ever be,
there can come the healing salve of the unreserved love in the grace of God. It is
a love that forgives and forgets, a love that lifts and blesses. It is a love that
sustains a new beginning on a higher level and thereby continues "from grace to
grace.” President James E. Faust
412) “We must keep our faith simple and our worship pure. Religion is more
than a ritual; it is righteousness.” President James E. Faust (Ensign, May 1999,
18)
413) “It is very unfair and unkind to judge conscientious and faithful parents
because some of their children rebel or stray from the teachings and love of their
parents. Fortunate are the couples who have children and grandchildren who
bring them comfort and satisfaction. We should be considerate of those worthy,
righteous parents who struggle and suffer with disobedient children.” President
James E. Faust (Second Counselor in the First Presidency)
414) “We remember [the Savior's] sacrifice at this time of year when we
celebrate His birth. It is only through the atoning sacrifice of the Prince of Peace
that we may know the true power of peace in our own lives." President Faust
415) “Every moment demands that we choose, over and over again, between
that which comes from the Lord and that which comes from the Devil. As tiny
drops of water shape a landscape, so our minute by minute choices shape our
eternal character. Living the eternal gospel every day may be harder than dying
for the church and for the Lord.” President Faust
416) “We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a
marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find
sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the
marriage.” President Faust
417) "Each of us has to receive our own witness concerning Jesus as the
Christ. . . . As one who has sought such a witness, I would like to set my seal
upon the testimony that has come to me of the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ."
President James E. Faust
418) “May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about
offending the devil.” President James E. Faust
419) “He is in tune with the Spirit of the Lord. He still has a zest for life. He has
a great sense of humor. He is always positive. He is always gracious.” President
James E. Faust (speaking of President Hinckley at his birthday party in SLC on
June 25, 2005)
420) “He is brilliant, able and wise. He's thoughtful and deliberate. He enjoys an
exchange of wits. He likes people.” President James E. Faust (speaking of
President Hinckley at his birthday party in SLC on June 25, 2005)
421) "As we look into the future, we are going to need to be stronger and more
responsible for our choices in a world where people 'call evil good, and good evil'
2 Nephi 15:20). We do not choose wisely if we use our agency in opposition to
 God's will or to priesthood counsel. Tomorrow's blessings and opportunities
depend on the choices we make today." President James E. Faust
422) "So where should each of us make our stand? As we demonstrate our
devotion to God by our daily acts of righteousness, He can know where we
stand. For all of us this life is a time of sifting and refining. We all face trials.
Individual members in the early days of the Church were tested and refined when
they had to decide if they had the faith . . . to put their belongings in a wagon or a
pioneer handcart and travel across the American plains. Some did not have the
faith. Those who did traveled 'with faith in every footstep.' In our time we are
going through an increasingly difficult time of refining and testing. The tests are
more subtle because the lines between good and evil are being eroded. Very
little seems to be sacred in any of our public communication. In this environment
we will need to make sure where we stand all of the time in our commitment to
eternal truths and covenants." President Faust
423) "Marriage relationships can be enriched by better communication. One
important way is to pray together. This will resolve many of the differences, if
there are any, between the couple before sleep comes. I do not mean to
overemphasize differences, but they are real, and make things interesting. Our
differences are the little pinches of salt which can make the marriage seem
sweeter. We communicate in a thousand ways, such as a smile, a brush of the
hair, a gentle touch, and remembering each day to say 'I love you' and the
husband to say 'You're beautiful.' Some other important words to say, when
appropriate, are 'I'm sorry.' Listening is excellent communication." President
Faust
424) "While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents,
few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely no more important work is
to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy,
honorable, and productive." President Faust
425) “To me, there is no more important human effort. Being a father or a
mother is not only a great challenge; it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring
consecration.” President Faust
426) “In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires
more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality,
perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life. This
is especially so when moral foundations of honor and decency are eroding
around us. For us to have successful homes, values must be taught, and there
must be rules, there must be standards, there must be absolutes. Many societies
give parents very little support in teaching and honoring moral values. A number
of cultures are becoming essentially valueless, and many of the younger people
in those societies are becoming moral cynics.” President Faust
427) “To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of
their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a
consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of
character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior
Himself.” President Faust
428) “We must keep our faith simple and our worship pure. Religion is more
than a ritual; it is righteousness.” President James E. Faust

-Elder Russell M. Nelson-

Nelson-
429) “If we truly did practice; and eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. We would
all be blind and toothless.” Elder Nelson
430) “You can do more than what’s scheduled in your daily planners.” Elder
Nelson
431) “When priorities are in place one can more patiently tolerate unfinished
business.” Elder Nelson
432) “Men and women really are brothers and sisters because God is really
our Father.” Elder Nelson
433) “There is hope in the future. Peace. Peace is a prime priority that pleads
for our pursuit.” Elder Nelson
434) “Look in the mirror every morning and tell yourself you are a child of God.”
Elder Nelson
435) “In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than
institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.” Elder Nelson
436) “It’s sad in our days what has become of affection.” Elder Nelson
437) “Our grandparents watch—and wait—for us to identify them, be linked to
them, and provide temple ordinances for them.” Elder Nelson
438) “Do you want to get rid of a bad habit? Do you want to improve
relationships in your family? Do you want to increase your spiritual capacity?
Read the Book of Mormon!” Elder Nelson
439) “An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people,
each striving to complement the other, to keep the commandments, and to do the
will of the Lord.” Elder Nelson
440) “We all need guidance through life. We obtain it best from the standard
works and teachings of the prophets of God.” Elder Nelson
441) “The temple can bless you, even before you enter it.” Elder Nelson
442) “Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or
tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you
want now.” Elder Nelson
443) “Your body, whatever its natural gifts, is a magnificent creation of God. It is
a tabernacle of flesh—a temple for your spirit.” Elder Nelson
444) “We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to
endure and return to Him with honor.” Elder Nelson
445) “Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run,
always lead to the best outcomes.” Elder Nelson
446) “What we do need to do is live worthy of the continued companionship of
the Holy Ghost and have the courage to follow the promptings that come into our
lives.” Elder Nelson
447) “If you really want to be like the Lord, . . . you will remember that your
adoration of Jesus is best shown by your emulation of Him.” Elder Russell M.
Nelson (Ensign, May 1997, 72)
448) “Sweet serenity is found in fervent prayer. Then, we forget ourselves and
remember the reaching hands of the Savior, who said, "Come unto me, all ye
that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." As our burdens are
shared with Him, they do become lighter.” Elder Russell M. Nelson (Matthew
11:28-30)
449) “It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access
to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath.” Elder Russell M. Nelson
450) “With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to
endure.” Elder Russell M. Nelson (Ensign, May 1988, page 35)
451) “Overdoses of needed medication can be toxic. Boundless mercy could
oppose justice. So tolerance, without limit, could lead to spinless
permissiveness.” Russell M. Nelson (Perfection Pending p71, Deseret Book
Company, SLC, UT)
452) “Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the
development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.” Elder
Russell M. Nelson
453) “We should gratefully acknowledge God as our Creator. Otherwise, we
would be as guilty as goldfish swimming in a bowl, oblivious to the goodness of
their provider.” Elder Russell M. Nelson, Ensign, Nov. 1998, 87
454) “There are no greater roles in life for a man than those of husband and
father. Likewise, there are no greater roles for a woman than those of wife and
mother.” Elder Russell M. Nelson; Ensign, Nov. 1989, 20

-Elder M. Russell Ballard-

Ballard-
455) “This is not a time for spiritual weaklings.” Elder Ballard
456) “You released missionaries are not released from the church.” Elder
Ballard
457) “We need not apologize for our beliefs nor back down from that which we
know to be true.” Elder Ballard
458) “Look the part. Act the part. Don’t follow worldly trends, you are better
than that.” Elder Ballard
459) “Let us, each one, radiate to others the joy, confidence, love, and warmth
of being part of the true Church of Christ.” Elder Ballard
460) “Pray hard and work hard and obey. Get busy, find your companion and
serve together.” Elder Ballard
461) “It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for
truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.” Elder Ballard
462) “We are all bound together—19th- and 20th-century pioneers and more—
in our great journey to follow the Lord Jesus Christ.” Elder Ballard
463) “The Lord has promised us that our joy will be great if we bring just one
soul unto Him.” Elder Ballard
464) “The time has come when we must marshal every resource to fellowship
every convert and bless the lives of many more of our Heavenly Father's
children.” Elder Ballard
465) “We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy
lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do.” Elder
Ballard
466) “Take what I said, because everything I said was true.” Elder Ballard
467) “Don’t tip-toe through the tulips.” Elder Ballard
468) “A holy relationship with the Lord IS what it’s cracked up to be.” Elder
Ballard
469) “Don’t worry about where Kolab is!” Elder Ballard
470) “Prosylyting is talking to people wherever you find them.” Elder Ballard
471) “I learn better when I focus on understanding a principle.” Elder Ballard
472) “Don’t measure the Spirit, because it never stops growing, just know when
it is felt.” Elder Ballard
473) “The Lord is closer than many of you realize.” Elder Ballard
474) “I know it is sometimes hard to stand for truth and right. Yet we need to be
positive examples if we are to help others find a better way.” Elder M. Russell
Ballard
475) “Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a
productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude fair results, a
poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is
determined largely by our attitude.” Elder M. Russell Ballard
476) “The everlasting peace Jesus promises is an inner peace, born in faith,
anchored by testimony, nurtured with love, and expressed through continual
obedience and repentance. It is a peace of spirit that echoes through the heart
and the soul. If one truly knows and experiences this inner peace, there is no fear
from worldly disharmony or discord. One knows deep down inside that all is well
as far as the things that really matter are concerned.” Elder M. Russell Ballard
477) "Having a testimony alone is not enough. In fact, when we are truly
converted, we cannot be restrained from testifying. And as it was with Apostles
and faithful members of old, so is it also our privilege, our duty, and our solemn
obligation to 'declare the things which [we] know to be true' (D&C 80:4)." Elder
Ballard
478) "God's peace is not to be hoarded. Rather, it is to be shared liberally with
our families, our friends, and our communities." Elder M. Russell Ballard

-Elder Henry B. Eyring-

Eyring-
479) “It is by giving our whole heart to the Master and serving Him is when we
become to know Him.” Elder Eyring
480) “Repentance hurts.” Elder Eyring
481) “Give thanks for the gift you have when you are called. You will miss it
when it is gone.” Elder Eyring
482) “The fruit of keeping the commandments is the companionship of the Holy
Ghost.” Elder Eyring
483) “If you evaluate your own performance, you will be sad. Look for
evidence for what God has done, through you and around you.” Elder Eyring
484) “The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call
is an invitation to become like Him.” Elder Eyring
485) “The Saints of God have always been under covenant to nourish each
other spiritually, especially those tender in the gospel.” Elder Eyring
486) “If we are capable of reason and past the age of eight, we all need the
cleansing that comes through applying the full effects of the Atonement of Jesus
Christ.” Elder Eyring
487) “It does not require a calling more than being a member to nourish by
reaching out in kindness.” Elder Eyring
488) “If you and I will study the scriptures and pray and tune our hearts and
ears, we will hear the voice of God in the voice of the people that He has sent to
teach and guide us and direct us.” Elder Eyring
489) “This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it
need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice.”
Elder Eyring
490) “The good word of God with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine
of the gospel.” Elder Eyring
491) “Contention in the home comes from sin and selfishness.” Elder Eyring
492) “It’s a gift from God to find joy in another’s happiness.” Elder Eyring
493) “There is a protection against pride it is to see the bounties which God
pours upon us not only as a mark of His favor but an opportunity to join with
those around us in greater service.” Elder Eyring
494) “A foundation built on truth and illuminated by the light of God will free us
from the fear that we might overcome.” Elder Eyring
495) “I gave my heart to the Lord’s service . . . He gave me the hearts of my
sons.” Elder Eyring
496) “You weren’t the same person because the Atonement of Jesus Christ is
real. And the promise is real that we can become new, changed, and better. And
we can become stronger for the tests of life. We then go in the strength of the
Lord, a strength developed in His service. He goes with us. And in time we
become His tested and strengthened disciples.” Elder Eyring (recited repeatedly
to myself while climbing Mt. Rainer in July Summer of 2004 along with the poem,
“Father, where shall I work today?”)
497) “We need a conviction that the keys of the priesthood are held on this
earth.” Elder Eyring
498) “The power of the priesthood lies in our faith.” Elder Eyring
499) “Be determined to pray with all the energy of your heart that you might
have every gift a loving Heavenly Father knows you must have to serve His Son
and to endure against the powers of darkness.” Elder Henry B. Eyring
500) “Calls will stretch you, often at the start and always over their course, but
He will give you the Holy Ghost to be your companion.” Elder Henry B. Eyring
501) "We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our
children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide
that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we
want so much to have forever. A key for us is in the proclamation: 'Happiness in
family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the
Lord Jesus Christ.' What could make it more likely that people in a family would
love and serve one another, observe the commandments of God, and obey the
 law? It is not simply teaching them the gospel. It is in their hearing the word of
God and then trying it in faith. If they do, their natures will be changed in a way
that produces the happiness they seek." Elder Eyring
502) "The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church but
also to our hope for eternal life. We begin to practice in the family, the smaller
unit, what will spread to the Church and to the society in which we live in this
world, which will then be what we practice in families bound together forever by
covenants and by faithfulness. We can start now to 'promote those measures
designed to maintain and strengthen the family.' I pray that we will. I pray that
you will ask, 'Father, how can I prepare?' Tell him how much you want what he
desires to give you. You will receive impressions, and if you act on them, I
promise you the help of the powers of heaven." Elder Eyring
503) “This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it
need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice.”
Elder Henry B. Eyring

-Elder Richard G. Scott-

Scott-
504) “Many of you grieve and feel burdened because you don’t let the healing
power of the spirit to work.” Elder Scott
505) “If you feel there is only a thin thread of hope, believe me, it is not a
thread. It can be the unbreakable connecting link to the Lord which puts a life
preserver around you. He will heal you as you cease to fear and place your trust
in him by striving to live His teachings.” Elder Scott
506) “Recognize the role of the Savior in the atonement. It will give you great
motivation for repentance.” Elder Scott
507) “Repentance opens the doors of enlightenment and aide inspiration.”
Elder Scott
508) “Peace is the precious fruit of a righteous life. It is possible because of the
Atonement of the Savior.” Elder Scott
509) “There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes
from assisting another improve his or her life.” Elder Scott
510) “Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices
centered in the teachings of the Master.” Elder Scott
511) “After this life, you will be restored to that which you have here allowed
yourself to become.” Elder Scott
512) “Why every member a missionary? Because that is what the Lord has
asked us to do.” Elder Scott
513) “There is one heritage that you need never change. It is that heritage that
comes from your being a daughter or son of Father in Heaven.” Elder Scott
514) “Enrich your life with the beauty around you. There is such an abundance
of it.” Elder Scott
515) “Keeping the covenants is not hard when you do it willingly with a “broken
heart and a contrite spirit.” Elder Scott
516) “The reason is because you are motivated to help the missionaries come
to know the happiness, and joy, you know.” Elder Scott (Spoken at a MTC
teacher’s mtg. about teaching the missionaries and why)
517) “Set aside the past or previous if the now (better) is different.” Elder Scott
518) “We must be as pure and as clean as a mirror so that the Lord can reflect
off of you what people should do.” Elder Scott
519) “Full repentance results in forgiveness with spiritual renewal. One can feel
the cleansing, the purity, the freshness that accompanies sincere repentance at
any time in life.” Elder Scott
520) “In a potential spouse we should look for essential attributes that bring
happiness: a deep love of the Lord and of His commandments, a determination
to live them, one that is kindly understanding, forgiving of others, and willing to
give of self, with the desire to have a family crowned with beautiful children and a
commitment to teach them the principles of truth in the home.” Elder Scott
521) “I suggest that you not ignore many possible candidates who are still
developing these attributes, seeking the one who is perfected in them. You will
likely not find that perfect person, and if you did, there would certainly be no
interest in you. These attributes are best polished together as husband and wife.”
Elder Scott
522) “True enduring happiness with the accompanying strength, courage, and
capacity to overcome the most challenging difficulties comes from a life centered
in Jesus Christ.” Elder Scott
523) “Once again the Savior proved to be the Great Exemplar. Not only did he
know the totality of mortal temptation, not only did he know the pain and
infirmities of man, not only did he know the consequences of all sin, but now he
knew what it was like to have every vestige of reason stripped away, so that faith
and faith alone is all that remains to carry one forward. All that he had
intellectually was an unanswered why, but what he had spiritually was faith, and
with that faith he pressed forward and descended beneath it all.” Elder Scott
524) “No one wants adversity. Trials, disappointments, sadness, and heartache
come to us from two basically different sources. Those who transgress the laws
of God will always have those challenges. The other reason for adversity is to
accomplish the Lord's own purposes in our life that we may receive the
refinement that comes from testing. It is vitally important for each of us to identify
from which of these two sources come our trials and challenges, for the
corrective action is very different.” Elder Richard G. Scott (“Ensign”, November
1995 (October Conference) page 16)
525) “Anchor your life in Jesus Christ, your Redeemer. Make your Eternal
Father and His Beloved Son the most important priority in your life - more
important than life itself, more important than a beloved companion or children or
anyone on earth. Make their will your central desire. Then all that you need for
happiness will come to you.” Elder Richard G. Scott
526) “God uses your faith to mold your character. Character is the
manifestation of what you are becoming. Strong moral character results from
consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you
to those correct choices. Clearly, it is what you do and what you think about that
determines what you are and what you will become. Therefore the choices you
make need to be inspired by the Lord.” Elder Richard G. Scott
527) “This experience simply could not be intellectualized. So it is with love.
However exhaustively we may read of the subject, it will always fall short of the
actual experience.” Elder Scott
528) “Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run,
always lead to the best outcomes.” Elder Richard G. Scott
529) “Spend time now doing what you don’t want to do, so you can do what you
want, later.” Elder Scott (paraphrased)
530) “Faith in Christ means we trust Him; we trust His teachings. That leads to
hope, and hope brings charity, the pure love of Christ—that peaceful feeling that
comes when we sense His concern, His love, and His capacity to cure us or to
ease our burdens with His healing power.” Elder Richard G. Scott
531) “Brethren, as we honor womanhood, each daughter of God will be
encouraged to do likewise.” Elder Richard G. Scott
532) “Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or
tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you
want now.” Elder Richard G. Scott; Ensign, May 1997, 54

FORMER PERESIDENTS of the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints

-Joseph Smith Jr.-

Jr.-
1) “I teach the people correct principles and then they govern themselves.” Joseph
Smith
2) “I had seen a vision; I knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I could not deny
it, neither dared I do it; at least I knew that by doing so I would offend God.”
Joseph Smith
3) “Oh my God! I have lived to see my own father baptized into the true Church of
Jesus Christ.” Joseph Smith
4) “I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my God is a cheerful, pleasant, lively,
good-natured Being. Why? Because I am cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-
natured when I have His Spirit.” Joseph Smith
5) “He who reads it (the scriptures) oftenest will like it best.” Joseph Smith (1 Nephi
15:24)
6) “If you want to win someone to your case, you must be his friend.” Joseph Smith
7) “Where doubt and fear are, faith cannot be. For fear and faith cannot exist in the
same person.” Joseph Smith
8) “The opinions of men are to me as the crackling of thorns under the pot, or the
whistling of the wind.” Joseph Smith
9) “There are some things that a wicked man will never know in this life.” Joseph
Smith
10) “...all things wherewith you have been afflicted shall work together for your good.”
D&C 98:3 As revealed to Joseph Smith
11) “And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his
brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear
up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all
the will of the Lord.” (Mosiah 24:15) Translated by Joseph Smith
12) “All these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good.” D&C
122:7 As revealed to Joseph Smith by the Lord
13) “ . . . fear not, let your hearts be comforted . . . (All) things wherewith you have
been afflicted shall work together for your good.” D&C 98:1, 3 As revealed to
Joseph Smith
14) “Men have to suffer that they may come upon Mount Zion and be exalted
above the heavens.” Joseph Smith
15) “God hath said that He would have a tried people, that He would purge them as
gold.” Joseph Smith
16) “Men who have no principle of … truth, do not understand the word of truth when
they hear it. The devil taketh away the word of truth out of their hearts, because
there is no desire for righteousness in them.” Joseph Smith
17) “Here, use my arm as a pillow.” Joseph Smith
18) “The nearer man approaches perfection, the clearer are his views, and the
greater his enjoyments, till he has overcome the evils of his life and lost every
desire for sin; and like the ancients, arrives at that point of faith where he is
wrapped in the power and glory of his Maker and is caught up to dwell with Him.
But we consider that this is a station to which no man ever arrived in a moment.”
Joseph Smith
19) “A [person] filled with the love of God is not content with blessing family alone,
but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”
Joseph Smith Jr.
20) “The devil could not compel not mankind to do evil; all was voluntary. . . . God
would not exert any compulsory means, and the devil could not.” Joseph Smith
Jr.

-George Albert Smith-

Smith-
21) “We should not force anyone into doing what’s right but rather love them into
doing what’s right.” George A. Smith (I really believe this.)
22) “If you want to be happy, remember that all happiness worthy of the name is on
the Lord’s side of the line and all sorrow and disappointment is on the devil’s side
of the line.” George A. Smith
23) “Those who pursue pleasure in this life to excess are likely to forsake the ways of
the Lord.” George A. Smith
24) “The pathway to righteousness is the highway of happiness.” George Albert
Smith

-David O. McKay-
McKay-
25) “We are by divine right, social beings.” David O. McKay
26) “The flower by the roadside that catches the dust of every traveler-is not admired
but the flower way up on the hill protected by a perpendicular cliff is the one the
boy will risk his life to possess.” David O. McKay (see Mulan quotation)
27) “The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.”
David O. McKay
28) “To be trusted is greater than to be loved.” David O. McKay
29) “Spirituality, our true aim, is the consciousness of victory over self, and of
communion with the infinite. Spirituality impels one to conquer difficulties and
acquire more and more strength.” David O. McKay
30) “To feel one’s faculties unfolding, and truth expanding in the soul, is one of life’s
sublimest experiences.” David O. McKay
31) “Happiness is not an external condition; it is the state of the spirit and an attitude
of the mind.” David O. McKay
32) “Joy is sweeter than pleasure. Joy is an emotion excited with the acquisition or
expectation of good. Pleasure is a state of gratification of the senses or mind
and may be sensuous. It may be self-indulgence. It is nearly always transitory.
Joy and happiness are permanent.” David O. McKay
33) “Motherhood is just another name for sacrifice.” David O. McKay
34) “In the well-ordered home we may experience on earth a taste of heaven.” David
O. McKay
35) “There is one responsibility that no man can evade. That is the responsibility of
personal influence. The effect of your words and acts is tremendous in this
world. Every moment of life you are changing to a degree the life of the whole
world...Life is a state of radiation...You will select the qualities that you will permit
to be radiated.” David O. McKay
36) “In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the
inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making
life's journey.” David O. McKay
37) “Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.”
David O. McKay
38) “Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual
enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a
sweetness of mind and spirit.” David O. McKay
39) “True happiness comes only by making others happy the practical application of
the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is
the Christ spirit that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and
prompts us to kind deeds of service. It is the spirit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
obedience to which will bring peace on earth because it means good will toward
all men.” David O. McKay
40) “Spirituality, our true aim, impels one to conquer difficulties and acquire more and
more strength. To feel one’s faculties unfolding, and truth expanding in the soul is
one of life’s sublimest experiences.” David O. McKay
41) “Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing,
the love of work is success.” David O. McKay
42) “Reverence is profound respect mingled with love.” David O. McKay
43) “Meditation is the language of the soul.” David O. McKay
44) President David O. McKay (1873–1970) stated that being parents is "the
greatest trust that has been given to human beings."
45) “It is true that the answers to our prayers may not always come as direct and at
the time nor in the manner, we anticipate; but they do come and at a time and in
a manner best for the interests of him who offers the supplication.” David O.
McKay

-Brigham Young-
Young-
46) “My religion is to know the will of God and do it.” Brigham Young
47) “Those who cannot serve God with a pure heart in the dance, should not dance.”
Brigham Young
48) “Every moment, every hour is for our benefit if we will make it a point to learn
from it.” Brigham Young
49) “I told them that Joseph was a Prophet, and I knew it, and they might rail and
slander him as much as they pleased. But they could not destroy the
appointment of the Prophet of God.” Brigham Young
50) “More of us are willing to die for our religion then to live it.” Brigham Young
51) “When I am left to myself, I have no power, and my wisdom is foolishness; then I
cling close to the Lord, and I have power in His name. I think I have learned the
Gospel so as to know, that in and of myself I am nothing.” Brigham Young
52) “No man can know himself unless he knows God, and he cannot know God
unless he knows himself.” Brigham Young
53) “All hell cannot hinder me from enjoying Zion in my heart if my individual will
yields to the Lord.” Brigham Young
54) “A large trial precedes a superior blessing.” Brigham Young
55) “Man is destined to be God – and has to act as an independent being – and is
left . . . to practice him to depend on his own resources, and try his independency
to be righteous in the dark – to be the friend of God and to do the best” (he) can
when left to (himself and to show his capacity).” Brigham Young
56) “The lifetime of man is a day of trial, wherein we may prove to God, in our
darkness, in our weakness, and where the enemy reign, that we are our Father's
friends.” Brigham Young
57) “My religion teaches me to embrace all truth in the heavens, on the earth, under
the earth, and in the bottomless pit, if there is any there. My creed embraces all
truth. If you have truth that I have not, let me know it, and it will come to where it
belongs; and if I have truth which you have not you are welcome to it. There is no
need of debate and contention in regard to truth and error, for debate tends to
create a spirit of bitterness.” Brigham Young (JD, Vol.9, p.316 - p.317)
58) “The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will
find that they must battle every day.” Brigham Young (in Journal of Discourses,
11:14)
59) “It is evident that many who understand the truth do not govern themselves by it;
consequently, no matter how true and beautiful truth is, you have to take the
passions of the people and mould them to the law of God.” Brigham Young (in
Journal of Discourses, 7:55)
60) “If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm
you have within you to bind up [the wound].” Brigham Young (Discourses of
Brigham Young, 278)
61) “Honest hearts produce honest actions. Fulfill your contracts and sacredly keep
your word.” Brigham Young
62) “Man has to learn to be righteous as an independent being.” Brigham Young
63) “. . .If you cannot provide for your natural lives, how can you expect to have
wisdom to obtain eternal lives.” Brigham Young
64) “Every principle God has revealed carries its own convictions of its truth to the
human mind.” Brigham Young
65) “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work,
and the power to appreciate life.” Brigham Young
66) “Where I draw a distinction in all the duties that are required of the children of
men, from first to last, I would place first and foremost the duty of seeking unto
the Lord our God until we open the path of communication from heaven and
earth – from God to our own souls.” Brigham Young

-John Taylor-
Taylor-
67) “When we cooperate with God, nothing is impossible.” John Taylor
68) “Because it is God’s kingdom, it shall move onward, ONWARD, ONWARD!!!”
John Taylor
69) “Anybody can preach. It takes a man to practice.” John Taylor
70) “He expects us to be Saints, not in name, not in theory, but in reality.” John
Taylor
71) “View the church as a life-long labor that extends into the next.” John Taylor
72) “In relation to events that will yet take place, the kind of trials, troubles, and
sufferings which we shall have to cope with, it is to me a matter of very little
moment; these things are in the hands of God, he dictates the affairs of the
human family, and directs and controls our affairs; and the great thing that we, as
a people, have to do is to seek after and cleave unto our God, to be in close
affinity with him, and to seek for his guidance, and his blessing and Holy Spirit to
lead and guide us in the right path. Then it matters not what it is nor who it is that
we have to contend with, God will give us strength according to our day.” John
Taylor (“Journal of Discourses”, 18:282)
73) “No trial is joyous for the present but grievous to be borne; but trials yield their
blessings, when patiently endured.” John Taylor (Journal of Discourses, Vol.6,
p.166-7)
74) “I find in tracing out the scriptures, that from the beginning there have existed two
powers --the powers of light and the powers of darkness; that both these things
existed in the heavens before they came here, that the powers of darkness were
cast out, and thus became the devil and his angels. This antagonism, then,
existed before, and it is necessary it should exist. It is necessary men should be
tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.” John Taylor

-Wilford Woodruff-
Woodruff-
75) “I tell you trusting in the Lord in these days is an unpopular business with the
world.” Wilford Woodruff
76) “The Lord has been watching over us form the hour of our birth.” Wilford
Woodruff
77) “True happiness and prosperity cannot be found independent of the gospel it is
uphill work.” Wilford Woodruff
78) “Trust is both obedience to God’s commandments and our willingness to invite
Him to participate in our daily lives.” Wilford Woodruff
79) “You may have the administration of angels, you may see many miracles; you
may see many wonders in the earth; but I claim that the gift of the Holy Ghost is
the greatest gift that can be bestowed upon man.” Wilford Woodruff

-Lorenzo Snow-
Snow-
80) “As man now is, God once was; As God now is, man may be.” Lorenzo Snow
81) “Make others happy and you will be happy yourselves.” Lorenzo Snow
82) “You must learn to govern yourself, or you will never be saved in the kingdom of
God.” Lorenzo Snow
83) “Thousands and thousands of years hence we will be ourselves, and nobody
else, so far as our individuality is concerned. That never dies from all eternity to
all eternity.” Lorenzo Snow
84) “Take it individually or take it collectively, we have suffered and we shall have to
suffer again; and why? Because the Lord requires it at our hands for our
sanctification.” Lorenzo Snow
85) “Many of you may have severe trials, that your faith may become more perfect,
your confidence be increased, and your knowledge of the powers of heaven be
augmented; and this before your redemption takes place. If a stormy cloud
sweep over the horizon of your course. . . if the cup of bitter suffering be offered
and you be compelled to partake --if Satan is let loose among you, with all his
seductive powers of deceiving and cunning craftiness --if the strong relentless
arm of persecution is against you, then in that hour lift up your heads and rejoice
that you are accounted worthy to suffer with Jesus, the Saints, and Holy
prophets, and know that the period of your redemption approaches.” Lorenzo
Snow
86) “It is guaranteed that if you follow the plans exactly you will fly like the
prototype.” Lorenzo Snow

-Heber J. Grant-
Grant-
87) “...tell them to make others happy and to aid them in carrying their burdens in life.
Then they will be sure of happiness, not only in their lives here, but in the life to
come.” Heber J. Grant
88) “What are we working for? Wealth? Riches? If we have embraced the gospel of
Jesus Christ, than we are working for eternal life.” Heber J. Grant
89) “Let me promise you here today that if the Latter-day Saints will honestly and
conscientiously from this day forth, as a people, keep the monthly fast and pay
into the hands of their bishops the actual amount that they would have spent for
food for the two meals from which they have refrained . . . we would have all the
money necessary to take care of the idle and all the poor.” Heber J. Grant
90) “Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month
will be benefited spiritually and be built up in the faith of the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ – benefited spiritually in a wonderful way.” Heber J. Grant
91) “Persistence in the pursuit of righteous desires can help us develop talents, attain
our spiritual goals, and serve others.” Heber J. Grant
92) “I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and
no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as well as
somebody else, that they will not do anything. God has given to some people ten
talents; to others, he has given one; but they who improve the one talent will live
to see the day when they will far outshine those who have ten talents but fail to
improve them. Trustworthiness, stick-to-it-iveness, and determination are the
qualities that will help you to win the battle of life. I believe unless we have
ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in
the battle of life. . . . Every individual should have a desire to grow and increase
in capacity and in ability to do things. Certainly, by mere exertion of the will, by
mere desire, we accomplish nothing. We must put with that desire the labor to
accomplish the things we desire. . . . I am convinced that every individual can
improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do
things as the years come and the years go. I believe in that with all my heart. I
know of no easy formula to success. Persist, persist, PERSIST; work, work,
WORK – is what counts in the battle of life.” Heber J. Grant

-Howard W. Hunter-
Hunter-
93) “Will we wear the victor’s crown? Satan may have lost Jesus, but he does not
believe he has lost us. He continues to tempt, taunt and plead for our loyalty.
We should take strength for this battle from the fact that Christ was victorious not
as a God but as a man.” Howard W. Hunter
94) “He was perfect and sinless, not because he had to be, but because he clearly
and determinedly wanted to be.” Howard W. Hunter
95) “We need to remember that though we make our friends, God has made our
neighbors-everywhere. Love should have no boundary; we should have no
narrow loyalties.” Howard W. Hunter
96) “Marriage would bring happiness, and divorce would be unknown if there were
understanding hearts. Hatred tears down, but understanding builds up.” Howard
W. Hunter
97) “If prayer is only a spasmodic cry at the time of crisis, then it is utterly selfish, and
we come to think of God as a repairman or a service agency to help us only in
our emergencies.” Howard W. Hunter (D&C 19:38)
98) “Let us remember that doing the things that have been ordained by God to be
important and needful and necessary, even though the world may view them as
unimportant and insignificant, will eventually lead to true greatness.” Howard W.
Hunter
99) “The direction of our lives is more important than any particular level of perfection
that we may be at.” Howard W. Hunter
100) “We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for
our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could
be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy.” Howard W. Hunter
(“God Will Have a Tried People,” Ensign, May 1980, p. 25)
101) “Perhaps no promise in life is more reassuring than that promise of
divine assistance and spiritual guidance in times of need. It is a gift freely given
from heaven, a gift that we need from our earliest youth through the very latest
days of our lives.” Howard W. Hunter

-Ezra Taft Benson-

Benson-
102) “Just as a man does not really desire food until he is hungry, so does he
not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.” Ezra Taft
Benson
103) “The war that began in heaven is not over yet. The conflict continues on
the battlefield of mortality.” Ezra Taft Benson
104) “Our inability to explain a thing in terms of our materialism does not
disprove its reality.” Ezra Taft Benson
105) “Bad experiences are expensive schools that only fools keep going to.”
Ezra Taft Benson
106) “When we put the Lord first all other things fall into place in our lives.” Ezra
Taft Benson
107) “Cleave unto thy wife? - It means to stay close to her, to be loyal to her, to
strengthen her, to communicate with her, and to express your love for her.” Ezra
Taft Benson
108) “The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. . . .
Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and
emotional growth.” (Ensign, Nov. 1982, p. 60.) President Hinckley noted: “The
family is falling apart all over the world. There are too many broken homes
among our own [people]. . . . This is a malady with a cure. The prescription is
simple and wonderfully effective. It is love. It is plain, simple, everyday love and
respect.” Ezra Taft Benson
109) “Every reversal can be turned to our benefit and blessing and can make
us stronger, more courageous, more godlike.” Ezra Taft Benson (Conf. Report,
Philippine Islands Area Conf, 1975, p. 11)
110) “It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women
grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and
reverses where men and women grow into strong characters.” Ezra Taft Benson
(Conf. Report, Stockholm Sweden Area Conf., 1974, p. 70.)
111) “There are times when you simply have to righteously hang on and outlast
the devil until his depressive spirit leaves you. As the Lord told the Prophet
Joseph Smith: 'Thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small
moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high' (D&C
121:7-8).” Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p.396
112) “You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You
are free to choose--but you are not free to alter the consequences of those
choices. You will be what you think about--what you consistently allow to occupy
the stage of your mind.” Ezra Taft Benson
113) “Only Jesus Christ is uniquely qualified to provide the hope, that
confidence, and that strength to overcome the world and rise above our human
failings.” Ezra Taft Benson
114) “The Spirit is the most important single element in this work. With the Spirit
magnifying your call, you can do miracles for the Lord in the mission field.
Without the Spirit, you will never succeed regardless of your talent and ability.”
Ezra Taft Benson
115) “ . . . The only measure of true greatness is how close a man can become
like Jesus.” Ezra Taft Benson
116) "The Book of Mormon brings men to Christ. The Doctrine and Covenants
brings men to Christ's kingdom, even The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, 'the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth' (D&C
1:30). I know that." President Benson
117) “Answers to prayer come most often by a still voice and are discerned by
our deepest, innermost feelings. I tell you that you can know the will of God
concerning yourselves if you will take the time to pray and listen.” Ezra Taft
Benson
118) “All through my life the counsel to depend on prayer has been prized
above almost any other advice I have received

-Spencer W. Kimball-
Kimball-
119) “Bear in mind, dear sisters, that the eternal blessings which are yours
through membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are far,
far greater than any other blessings you could possibly receive. No greater
recognition can come to you in this world than to be known as a woman of God.”
Spencer W. Kimball
120) “Whoever said that sin was not fun? Whoever claimed that Lucifer was
not handsome, persuasive, easy, and friendly? Whoever said that sin was
unattractive, undesirable or nauseating in its acceptance? Transgression wears
elegant gowns and sparkling apparel.” Spencer W. Kimball
121) “Jesus stands on the horizon of human experience as the only one who
cannot be improved.” Spencer W. Kimball
122) “Any excuse, no matter how valid it may be, it weakens the character.”
Spencer W. Kimball
123) “If you had spent half the time in your life trying to gain an understanding
of the gospel instead of spending all of your time on studies and other activities,
your faith would have been invincible.” Spencer W. Kimball
124) “Happiness...is an elusive thing. It is a little like the pot of gold at the end
of the rainbow. If you go out deliberately to find it, you may have great difficulty
catching it. But if you will follow directions closely, you will not need to pursue it.
It will overtake you and remain with you.” Spencer W. Kimball`125
125) “I may not be able to eliminate pornographic trash, but my family and I
need not buy or view it. I may not be able to close disreputable businesses, but I
can stay away from areas of questioned honor and ill repute. I may not be able
to greatly reduce the divorces of the land or save all broken homes and frustrated
children, but I can keep my own home a congenial one, my marriage happy, my
home a heaven, and my children well adjusted. I may not be able to stop the
growing claims to freedom from laws based on morals, or change all opinions
regarding looseness in sex and growing perversions, but I can guarantee
 devotion to all high ideals and standards in my own home, and I can work toward
giving my own family a happy, interdependent spiritual life. I may not be able to
stop all graft and dishonesty in high places, but I myself can be honest and
upright, full of integrity and true honor, and my family will be trained likewise. I
may not be able to insure family prayers, home evening, meeting attendance,
and spiritual, well-integrated lives in all my neighbors, but I can be certain that my
children will be happy at home. They will grow strong and tall and realize their
freedom is found at home, in their faith, in clean living, and in opportunity to
serve. As Christ said, “And the truth shall make you free.” No virtues in the
perfection we strive for are more important than integrity and honesty. Let us
then be complete, unbroken, pure and sincere, to develop in ourselves that
quality of soul we prize so highly in others.” Spencer W. Kimball
126) “The treasures of both secular and spiritual knowledge are hidden ones-
but hidden from those who do not properly search and strive to find
them...spiritual knowledge is not available merely for the asking; even prayers
are not enough. It takes persistence and dedication of one’s life.” Spencer W.
Kimball
127) “The Lord never fills a vacant mind, He fills a humble heart.” Spencer W.
Kimball
128) “Soul Mates are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and
young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with
whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any
good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage
if both are willing to pay the price.” Spencer W. Kimball
129) “Right marriage starts with right marriage.” Spencer W. Kimball
130) “I'm grateful that my priesthood power is limited and used as the Lord sees
fit to use it. I don't want to heal all the sick--for sickness sometimes is a great
blessing. People become angels through sickness. Have you ever seen
someone who has been helpless for so long that he has divested himself of
every envy and jealousy and ugliness in his whole life, and who has perfected his
life? I have. Have you seen mothers who have struggled with, perhaps,
unfortunate children for years and years, and have become saints through it...?
No pain suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its
compensating effects if it be suffered in resignation and if it be met with
patience.” President Spencer W. Kimball (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, 167-
68.)
131) “Now, we find many people critical when a righteous person is killed, a
young father or mother is taken from a family, or when violent deaths occur.
Some become bitter when oft-repeated prayers seem unanswered. Some lose
faith and turn sour when solemn administrations by holy men seem to be ignored
and no restoration seems to come from repeated prayer circles. But, if all the sick
were healed, if all the righteous were protected and the wicked destroyed, the
whole program of the Father would be annulled and the basic principle of the
Gospel, free agency, would be ended. If pain and sorrow and total punishment
immediately followed the doing of evil, no soul would repeat a misdeed. If joy and
peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there could be
 no evil-all would do good and not because of the rightness of doing good. There
would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers,
no free agency, no Satanic controls. Should all prayers be immediately answered
according to our selfish desires and or limited understanding, then there would
be little or no suffering, sorrow, disappointment, or even death; and if these were
not, there would also be an absence of joy, success, resurrection, eternal life,
and godhood.” Spencer W. Kimball ("Tragedy or Destiny," Improvement
Era, March 1996, pp. 180, 210)
132) “Being human we would expel from our lives, sorrow, distress, physical
pain, and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort.
But if we closed the doors upon such, we might be evicting our greatest friends
and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience,
long- suffering and self-mastery.” Spencer W. Kimball
133) “There are depths in the sea which the storms that lash the surface into
fury never reach. They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the
stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them
poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.” Spencer W. Kimball
134) “Strength and struggle go together. The Supreme reward of struggle is
strength. Life is a battle and the greatest joy is to overcome. The pursuit of easy
things makes men weak. Do not equip yourselves with superior power and hope
to escape the responsibility and work. It cannot be done. It is following lines of
least resistance that makes a river and men crooked.” Spencer W. Kimball
(Miracle of Forgiveness, Bookcraft pg. l64)
135) “God does notice us, and he watches over us. But it is usually through
another person that he meets our needs. Therefore, it is vital that we serve each
other.” Spencer W. Kimball (Ensign, October 1985, P3)
136) “The height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of
his failure by his self-abandonment... He who cannot establish a dominion over
himself will have no dominion over others. He who masters himself shall be king.”
Spencer W. Kimball
137) “The love of which the Lord speaks is not only physical attraction, but also
faith, confidence, understanding, and partnership. It is devotion and
companionship, parenthood, common ideals, and standards. It is cleanliness of
life and sacrifice and unselfishness. This kind of love never tires nor wanes. It
lives on through sickness and sorrow, through prosperity and privation, through
accomplishment and disappointment, through time and eternity. . . . Today it is a
demonstrative love, but in the tomorrows of ten, thirty, fifty years it will be a far
greater and more intensified love, grown quieter and more dignified with the
years of sacrifice, suffering, joys, and consecration to each other, to your family,
and to the kingdom of God.” Spencer W. Kimball (An Apostle Speaks About
Marriage to John and Mary,” Improvement Era, February 1949, 76; also “John
and Mary, Beginning Life Together,” New Era, June 1975, 7–8)
138) (Jesus: The Perfect Leader) “Jesus said several times, ‘Come follow me.’
His was a program of ‘do what I do,’ rather than ‘do what I say.’ His innate
brilliance would have permitted Him to put on a dazzling display, but that would
 have left His followers far behind. He walked and worked with those He was to
serve.” Spencer W. Kimball
139) (Importance of Goal Setting) “I believe in goals, but I believe the individual
should set his own. Goals should always be made to a point that will make us
reach and strain. Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching
the goal set, but by progress and attainment.” Spencer W. Kimball
140) “Jesus gave people truths and tasks that were matched to their capacity.
He did not overwhelm them with more than they could manage, but gave them
enough to stretch their souls. Jesus was concerned with basics in human nature
and in bringing about lasting changes, not simply cosmetic changes.” Spencer
W. Kimball
141) (Wise Use of Time) “Jesus also taught us how important it is to use our
time wisely. This does not mean that there can never be any leisure, for there
must be time for contemplation and for renewal, but there must be no waste of
time. How we manage time matters so very much, and we can be good
managers of time without being frantic or officious . . . Time cannot be recycled.
When a moment has gone, it has really gone. Wise time management is really
the wise management of ourselves.” President Kimball
142) (Our Potential) “One of the greatest teachings of the Man of Galilee, the
Lord Jesus Christ, was that you and I carry within us immense possibilities. In
urging us to be perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect, Jesus was not
taunting us or teasing us. He was telling us a powerful truth about our
possibilities and about our potential. It is a truth that is almost too stunning to
contemplate . . . We are not perfect as Jesus was, but unless those about us can
see us striving and improving, they will not be able to look to us for example, and
they will see us as less than fully serious about the things to be done.” President
Kimball
143) (Accountability) “A good leader will remember he is accountable to God as
well as to those he leads.” President Kimball
144) “Find yourselves by serving and you will fill with substance.” President
Kimball
145) “Anything we put before our God is an idol.” President Spencer Kimball

-Joseph Fielding Smith-

Smith-
146) “The time of quickening is when the mother feels the life of her unborn
infant.” Joseph Fielding Smith
147) “You cannot teach one thing and do another. Example is the way we
teach the gospel.” Joseph Fielding Smith
148) “Parents will be responsible for the actions of their children, if they have
failed to teach their children by example and precept.” Joseph Fielding Smith
149) “Men cannot teach what they themselves cannot live or do not know.”
Joseph F. Smith
150) “To be a successful father or successful mother is greater than to be a
successful statesmen (anything else) etc.” Joseph F. Smith
151) “Let us conquer ourselves and then go to and conquer all the evil that we
see around us.” Joseph F. Smith
152) “A testimony is either growing or deteriorating.” Joseph F. Smith
153) “Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that obeys the laws of God
hath no need to break the laws of the land.” Joseph F. Smith
154) “Until we have a perfect love we are susceptible to falling.” Joseph F.
Smith

-Harold B. Lee-
Lee-
155) “I invite women to be a little more firm under their tenderness and men to
be a little more tender under their firmness.” Harold B. Lee
156) “A spiritual man strives to make every day his masterpiece.” Harold B. Lee
157) “Let your spirit be taught by the spirit.” Harold B. Lee
158) “As Christ overcame, He has made it possible, and has placed it within the
power of believers in Him, also to overcome.” Harold B. Lee
159) “Now don't misunderstand me. I am not trying to urge you younger men to
marry too early. I think therein is one of the hazards of today's living. We don't
want a young man to think of marriage until he is able to take care of a family, to
have an institution of his own, to be independent. He must make sure that he has
found the girl of his choice, they have gone together long enough that they know
each other, and that they know each other's faults and they still love each other. .
. . Please don't misunderstand what we are saying; but, brethren, think more
seriously about the obligations of marriage for those who bear the holy
priesthood at a time when marriage should be the expectation of every man who
understands [his] responsibility.” Harold B. Lee
160) “If young people would resolve at the moment of their marriage that from
that time forth they would do everything in their power to please each other in
things that are right, even to the sacrifice of their own pleasures, their own
appetites, their own desires, the problem of adjustment in married life would take
care of itself, and their home would indeed be happy. Great love is built on great
sacrifice . . .” Harold B. Lee
161) “Don't try to live too many days at a time.” Harold B. Lee

OTHER CHURCH AUTHORITIES/Authors/Personal

-Elders-
Elders-
1) “For do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet
pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” Galatians 1:10
2) “We must not be nearly dependable but always dependable, let us be faithful in
the little things as well as the big ones.” Eldon Tanner
3) “When one falls, an entire generation falls right behind.” Elder Ned B. Roueche
4) "For the gospel to be written in your heart, you need to know what it is and grow
to understand it more fully, . . . sometimes reading a few verses, stopping to
ponder them, carefully reading the verses again, and as you think about what
they mean, praying for understanding, asking questions in your mind, waiting for
spiritual impressions, and writing down the impressions and insights that come
so you can remember and learn more. Studying in this way, you may not read a
lot of chapters or verses in a half hour, but you will be giving place in your heart
 for the word of God, and He will be speaking to you." Elder D. Todd
Christofferson
5) "The blessings that flow from welcoming God's rule in our lives are so enticing,
and the alternative so appalling, that if we see things in their true light, we cannot
be kept from walking in wisdom's paths." Elder D. Todd Christofferson
6) “Love, whether immature or mature, has three aspects--how love feels; how you
think about love; and how you behave, or act, when in love.” Thomas B. Holman
7) “We learn lessons from storms that we cannot learn from calm seas.” Elder John
Groberg
8) “My life has taught me how important the church is.” Elder John Groberg
9) “Those that the world shuns, the Lord blesses.” Elder John Groberg
10) “Ask the Lord to help you be the best you can and be confident and the only way
you can be confident is if you are doing what is right.” Elder John Groberg
11) “A poet described this delusion as an ‘endless cycle’ that brings ‘knowledge of
words, and ignorance of the Word,’ in which "wisdom" is ‘lost in knowledge’ and
‘knowledge’ is ‘lost in information.’” T.S. Elliot, Choruses from “The Rock” (as
quoted by Elder Oaks in General Conference)
12) “Take a page from nature’s book; they (sunflowers) stand tall and are not easily
uprooted.” Elder Burton
13) “Anniversaries serve to remind us of sacred events.” Elder Burton
14) “If you don’t know, you are hesitating to know.” Elder Diedie
15) “Focus on the simple tasks of missionary work; you will succeed beyond your
wildest dreams! You will learn things that people would never imagine.” Elder
Pinnock
16) “The suffering that results from sin is most tragic because through our own
choices, we can choose to avoid it. We have that power.” Elder Jack Goasling
17) “When the Lord commands . . . do it, because that’s the way it is.” Elder Burton
18) “A second language will be learned best by struggling to communicate one’s
own meaning and by interacting with others in order to negotiate meaning.” From
MTC Documents
19) “We ought to be real students—students like no one else. … If we, in this lay
Church, don’t become proficient in learning the gospel of Jesus Christ, who on
earth will? If the elders of Israel do not become profound theologians, who on
earth will? If you mothers and mothers-to-be don’t learn the gospel sufficiently to
teach your children, who on earth will? And, you missionaries, if you don’t learn
the message the Lord would have you teach, who on earth will? Many painfully
discover the obvious—you can’t teach well that which you do not know!” Joe J.
Christensen (“Learning Is Everybody’s Business,” Ensign, Feb. 1979, pp. 64–65)
20) "In common with all of the human family--everyone being the progeny of our
loving Heavenly Father--we share vast congruence in our DNA or genetic
physical makeup, as well as the universally possible and promised blessings and
characteristics that identify our divine parentage and spiritual potential. It is this
special blending of our common origins and characteristics and also of our
unique attributes, experiences, and specialized challenges that makes each of us
who and what we are." President Samuelson
21) "When we begin to understand the magnitude of [the Messiah's] sacrifice and
service to us individually and collectively, we then cannot consider anything else
to be of more importance or to approach His significance in our lives. For most of
us, this understanding does not come all at once and likely will not be fully
complete during our mortal sojourn. We do know, however, that as we learn line
upon line, our appreciation for the Savior's contributions will increase and our
knowledge and assurance of their truthfulness will grow." President Samuelson

-Sisters-
Sisters-
22) “When we feel His love we are more willing to submit.” Sister Patty Montgomery
23) “Feeling inferior and feeling superior are two sides of the same coin of pride.”
Sister Patty Montgomery
24) “Our greatest success comes from being ourselves.” Sister Patty Montgomery
25) “The true unfailing source for self-esteem is the pure love of Christ.” Sister Patty
Montgomery
26) “We didn’t come to earth to gain our worth we brought it with us.” Sheryl Dew
27) “Never underestimate the effects of your actions; the power of an individual on
another. We never think that we have the capacity to do great things. We can do
small things in great ways. We never know the impact of our actions . . . Mother
Theresa day by day did small, unnoticed things, but she changed lives. D&C
64:33 We can change the world. We are laying the foundation of great things.”
Sister Margaret Arnold
28) “I cannot know the future, nor the path I shall have trod, But by that inward
vision, which points the way to God. I would not glimpse the beauty or joy for me
in store, Lest patience ne’er restrain me from thrusting wide the door. I would not
part the curtains or cast aside the veil, Else sorrows that await me might make
my courage fail; I’d rather live not knowing, just doing my small mite; I’d rather
walk by faith with God, than try alone the light.” Sister Ida Allredge
29) "We may know much of loneliness. We may know discouragement and
frustration. We may know adversity and trouble and pain. I would hope not. But
you know, and I know, that suffering comes to many. Sometimes it is mental.
Sometimes it is physical. Sometimes it may even be spiritual. Ours is the duty to
walk by faith. Ours is the duty to walk in faith, rising above the evils of the world.
We are sons and daughters of God. Ours is a divine birthright. Ours is a divine
destiny. We must not, we cannot sink to the evils of the world--to selfishness and
sin, to hate and envy and backbiting, to the "mean and beggarly” elements of life.
"You and I must walk on a higher plane. It may not be easy, but we can do it.
Our great example is the Son of God whom we wish to follow." Ellen Pucell
(Unthank Monument Dedication, Cedar City, Utah, August 3, 1991)
30) “When we are pushed, stung, defeated, embarrassed, hurt, rejected, tormented,
forgotten----when we are in agony of spirit crying out 'why me?' we are in a
position to learn something.” Elaine Cannon (Adversity p. 47)
31) “Every burden on the back can become a gift in the hand.” Elaine Cannon
32) “Hopeless may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our
soul. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause us to loose our way. But
hope awakens us like a light shining in the darkness. We can endure all things
 when our hope is centered in one who will never fail us --our Savior, Jesus
Christ, who is the Light of the world.” Dawn J. Young
33) “That is the nature of hope. We do all we can, and then the Lord stretches forth
his hand and touches our lives with light and courage and, most of all, hope.”
Dawn J. Young
34) “Before we can teach our children, we must understand and live the principles
ourselves. It is vital that the child learn from our example that what we say and
what we live are the same.” Dawn J. Young (Ensign, November 1983, page 86)
35) “Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it
provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.”
Norma H. Hill (Ensign, August 1984, page 64)
36) “Sharing what we've learned with each other builds us all. If we can turn and
help one another with the experience we've gained, then the trial really is a
blessing. Isn't that what these earth life experiences are all about anyway? If our
trials can be a school of experience so that another need not suffer so, if we can
help a brother or sister because of what we have learned, then the difficulty
seems very worthwhile. Life is one growing experience after another.” Diane
Hopkins of Latter-day Family Resources
37) “One other aspect of our trials not being only for us but others - I think when we
go through different trials we are better able to help others going through the
same thing.” Karen
38) “What Would I Do? – What would I do? If I had stood among the trees and
watched Him as He walked. Would I have been a passer-by and listened as He
talked. He cried for help, for peace, for strength – he stumbled and He fell. Would
I have watched with hardened heart and thought not me, oh well. Or will I share
the strength I saw as drops of blood were shed, when my cup comes will I not
shrink to follow where He led. Help me dear Lord to pray for help and please with
patience bless, to see thy hand in spite of fear and say nevertheless . . . .” Sister
Alder
39) “Of Him I Testify – It’s much to hard I often think when storms of life arise. I kneel
again upon this floor, ‘Oh Lord please hear my cries.’ I am studying to preach thy
word, I want to do my best, my weary soul is searching for a place that it can
rest. With faith I made the choice to serve, to join the MTC but now I stop to
wonder, am I good enough for thee? I think of how He called to them in distant
lands of old to reach with love to every man, and bring sheep to His fold. They
were not skilled with many words, mere fisherman at best but still they served
until their death and found in Him their rest. If He who made the lame to walk and
caused the blind to see can cause within a heart to burn, what won’t He do for
me. He suffered for my every sin, His death showed me the way, to find the hope
and peace I need to live from day to day. I life my eyes, my strength renewed
another chance to try . . . He is my Lord, my God, my King – of Him I testify!”
Sister Alder

40) “Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers
compared to an eternity. It is so short that we can do it. We can prevail. Why, you
can stand your foot in a vice for a while if you know it's going to be released
 soon. Yes, earthly probation is short compared to eternity, but so very much is
riding on how we handle the trials and temptations of the flesh.” Hartman Rector,
Jr.
41) “Faith is the willingness to endure.” Lloyd Newell
42) “We learn obedience, as the Savior did, by the things which we suffer.
...Sometimes in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated
to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction
or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience,
refinement, and perfection.” Delbert L. Stapley
43) “Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of
His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being
wise.” Ardeth G. Kapp
44) “True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.” Thomas
Aquinas
45) “I like the man who faces what he must with step triumphant and a heart of
cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear; sees his hopes fail, yet keeps
unfaltering trust that God is God; that somehow, true and just, His plans work out
for mortals;...” (from “Unfaltering Trust,” by Sarah K. Bolton) Quoted by El Ray L.
Christiansen (BYU Speeches, Jan. 6, 1960, p. 3)
46) “We want you to come and experience the joy of those two worlds (the world we
live in and the one we’re going to) together-to see how they blend as one through
the gospel of Jesus Christ.” Rex D. Pinegar
47) “Do not fear the challenges of life, but approach them patiently, with faith in God.
He will reward your faith with power not only to endure, but also to overcome
hardships, disappoitments, trials, and struggles of daily living. Through diligently
striving to live the law of God and with faith in Him, we will not be diverted from
our eternal course.” Rex D. Pinegar
48) “From my own experience with life’s hardships I have learned that faith in God
develops a personal love for Him which is reciprocated through his blessings to
us in times of need. To my daughter and to all others who are meeting new or
challenging times, I say: Do not fear the challenges of life, but approach them
patiently, with faith in God. He will reward your faith with power not only to
endure, but also to overcome hardships, disappointments, trials, and struggles of
daily living. Through diligently striving to live the law of God and with faith in Him,
we will not be diverted from our eternal course either by the ways or the praise of
the world.” Rex D. Pinegar (“Faith—The Force of Life,” Ensign, Nov. 1982, p. 26)
49) “Our search for knowledge should be ceaseless, which means that it is open-
ended, never resting on laurels, degrees, or past achievements. "If we get puffed
up by thinking that we have much knowledge, we are apt to get a contentious
spirit," and what is the cure? "Correct knowledge is necessary to cast out that
spirit." The cure for inadequate knowledge is "ever more light and knowledge."
But who is going to listen patiently to correct knowledge if he thinks he has the
answers already? "There are a great many wise men and women too in our midst
who are too wise to be taught; therefore, they must die in their ignorance." "I
have tried for a number of years to get the minds of the Saints prepared to
receive the things of God; but we frequently see some of them...[that] will fly to
 pieces like glass as soon as anything comes that is contrary to their traditions:
they cannot stand the fire at all."...True knowledge never shuts the door on more
knowledge, but zeal often does.” Hugh Nibley
50) “I know when I’ve been taught by the Holy Spirit when I’ve learned something
new in the process.” Marion G. Romney
51) “This is the living Church of Jesus Christ, nothing or no one on the inside and on
the outside can stop it from reaching its glory.” Marion G. Romney
52) “Everything we do in life, whether it be good or bad, simple or profound, has an
effect or influence on someone -- either ourselves or others. ‘Be not weary in
well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work,’ the Lord told the
early saints. ‘For out of small things proceedeth that which is great.’ (D&C 64:33).
Small things -- actions, words, deeds that we may think are ‘no big deal’ -- may in
fact, powerfully affect another, either positively or negatively. And even if we don't
think our action may influence another, we are reminded that there are no small
things to the Lord in his assessment of who and what we really are, for our entire
life and spiritual character is made up of a lifetime of small things. For this reason
the Lord has declared that in his judgment of mankind, ‘whatsoever a man
soweth, that shall he also reap’(Galatians 6:7).” Brent L. Top (Lord I Would
Follow Thee, Bookcraft, p3)

-Marvin J. Ashton-
Ashton-
53) “Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended.” Marvin J. Ashton
54) “If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize
that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of
emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.” Marvin J.
Ashton
55) “The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this ~ Irritations get into his
shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the
irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are
irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl.” Marvin
J. Ashton, quoting Harry Emerson Fosdick
56) “Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the
happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and
undeserved.” Marvin J. Ashton (Ensign, November 1984, page 22)
57) “We must at regular and appropriate intervals speak and reassure others of our
love and the long time it takes to prove it by our actions. Real love does take
time. The Great Shepherd had the same thoughts in mind when he taught, “If ye
love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15; italics added) and “If ye love me
feed my sheep” (John 21:16; italics added). Love demands action if it is to be
continuing. Love is a process. Love is not a declaration. Love is not an
announcement. Love is not a passing fancy. Love is not an expediency. Love is
not a convenience. “If ye love me, keep my commandments” and “If ye love me
feed my sheep” are God-given proclamations that should remind us we can often
best show our love through the processes of feeding and keeping.” Marvin J.
Ashton
58) “Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles
that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.” Marvin J.
Ashton
59) “Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of
his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make
Satan rejoice.” Marvin J. Ashton
60) “As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us
if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him. What a great
blessing to be created in his image and know of our true potential in and through
him! What a great blessing to know that in his strength we can do all things!”
Marvin J. Ashton
61) “It is a happy day when we come to know that with God's help nothing is
impossible for us.” Marvin J. Ashton
62) “God knows the feelings in every human heart. He can soften sorrow and lead
when there seems to be no light. Prayer can give guidance and confidence. It
reminds us that no one need be alone in this world. If all else fails, remember:
God and one other person can be a family.” Marvin J. Ashton
63) “With God's help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or
difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and I
reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.” Marvin J. Ashton
64) “Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.” Marvin J. Ashton

-The McConkies-
McConkies-
65) “. . . it must be recognized that faith and doubt are not compatible classmates; as
long as they are allowed to sit next to each other, they will be disruptive to the
spirit of the class.” Joseph Fielding McConkie
66) “Vagueness in preparation ensures vagueness in presentation.” Joseph Fielding
McConkie
67) “It has been my observation that good teachers suffer more disappointment and
frustration in teaching than do poor teachers.” Joseph Fielding McConkie
68) “In large measure, the role of the gospel teacher is not to teach truths that are
unknown or little understood by the student, but rather to motivate his students to
make application of those things that they already know they should be doing.”
Joseph Fielding McConkie
69) “A master teacher once suggested that 99 percent of all classroom problems are
teacher caused.” Joseph Fielding McConkie
70) “ . . . what each of us needs, is a PH.D in faith and righteousness.” Elder Bruce
R. McConkie
71) “The right person is someone for whom the natural and wholesome and normal
affection that should exist does exist. It is the person who is living so that he or
she can go to the temple of God and make the covenants that we there make.”
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
72) “All our losses and sufferings will be made up to us in the resurrection.” Elder
Bruce R. McConkie (Ensign, November 1976, page 108)
73) “Revelation is not something you can describe it’s something you experience.”
Elder McConkie
74) “Priesthood is the very name of the power of God.” Elder Bruce R. McConkie
75) “There is nothing in this world that I would rather do than have the privilege of
preaching the gospel and of devoting such time and abilities as the Lord may
bless me with to the building up his kingdom.” Elder Bruce R. McConkie
76) “I testify that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God and was crucified for the
sins of the world. He is our Lord, our God, and our King. This I know of myself
independent of any other person. I am one of his witnesses, and in a coming day
I shall feel the nail marks in his hands and in his feet and shall wet his feet with
my tears. But I shall not know any better than I know now that he is God’s
Almighty Son, that he is our Savior and Redeemer, and that salvation comes in
and through his atoning blood and in no other way.” Elder Bruce R. McConkie
77) “With out revelation, all is darkness, guesswork and confusion.” Bruce McConkie
78) “When He, after his resurrection . . . sought to give the Nephites the most
transcendent spiritual experience they were able to bear, he did it, not in a
sermon, but in a prayer, ‘The things which he prayed cannot be written,’ the
record says.” Bruce R. McConkie

-Noteworthy Authors-
Authors-
79) Dr. Hewitt, in response to a question, why do both the good and the bad suffer?
“First,” he says, “I don’t know. Second: We may not be as innocent as we think.
Third: I believe it is because He loves us so much more than He loves our
happiness. How so? Well, if on a basis of strict personal return here and now,
all the good were always happy and the bad suffered disaster (instead of often
quite the reverse), this would be the most subtle damnation of character
imaginable” Dr. Hewitt
80) “Some entertainment is simply paying the adversary for lessons.” John
Bytheway
81) “The wrong one is the right one to lead you to the best one.” John Bytheway
82) “I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.” Stephen L.
Richards
83) “God is our Father, Man is brother, Life is a mission not a career.” Stephen
Richards
84) “The iron rod does not go through the lobby of the great and spacious building.”
W. Jeffrey Marsh (1 Nephi 15:24)
85) “You are hungry and thirsty when you don’t have the object of your desire.”
Stephen R. Robinson
86) “‘I’m just not celestial material.’ Well . . . join the club. None of us meet the
perfection requirements needed to be in the presence of our Heavenly Father.
Are you trying to save yourself with Jesus as an advisor?” (quoted from
Robinson’s book “Believing Christ”)
87) “God many times answers our prayers not by bringing down His will to ours; but
lifting us up to Himself. We grow strong; so as to need no longer cry for relief.
We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep
the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on in quiet peace without the new
blessing which we thought so necessary. We have not been saved from the
battle we shrank so from entering; but we have sought and have gained the
 victory. Is not victoriousness in conflict better than being freed from the struggle?
Is not peace in the midst of the storm and the strife better than to be lifted
together over the strife?” J.R. Miller
88) “Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.” William Hazlitt - English
writer

-The Cannons
Cannons-
nnons-
89) “If God deprives his children of any present blessing, it is so that he may bestow
upon them a greater and more glorious one by and by.” George Q. Cannon
90) “No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction,
(GOD) will never desert us. He never has, and HE NEVER WILL. He cannot do
it. It is not His character to do so. He is an unchangeable being the same
yesterday, the same day, and He will be the same throughout the eternal ages to
come. We have found that God. We have made Him our friend, by obeying His
gospel; and He will stand by us. We may pass through the fiery furnace; we may
pass through deep waters; but we shall not be consumed nor overwhelmed. We
shall emerge from all these trials and difficulties the better and purer for them, if
we only TRUST in our God and KEEP His commandments.” George Q. Cannon
(Freedom of the Saints, Study 5, vols. 2:185)
91) “The time must come when the talent of men [and women] of business shall be
used to benefit the whole people . . . to uplift the masses, to rescue them from
their poverty. That is one of the objectives in establishing Zion, and anything
short of that is not Zion.” George Q. Cannon
92) “A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.” Alexander
Cannon

93) “Teach our members that if they have a good, miserable day once in a while, or
several in a row, to stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There
is great purpose in our struggle in life.” Daniel K Judd “The Simpleness of the
Way Looking to the Lord for Help and Healing” (Bookcraft 1998)
94) “My experience in various church callings and in my profession as a family
therapist has convinced me that God actively intervenes in some destructive
lineages, assigning a valiant spirit to break the chain of destructiveness in such
families. Although these children suffer innocently as victims of violence,
neglect, and exploitation, through the grace of God some find the strength to
'metabolize' the poison within themselves, refusing to pass it on to future
generations. Before them were generations of destructive pain; after them the
line flows clear and pure. Their children and children's children will call them
blessed.” Carlfred Broderick (Aug Ensign 1996, p. 38)
95) “Beware of the danger [of over-commitment and physical exhaustion]. It is
especially [harmful] for young couples who are trying to get started in a
profession or in school. Do not try to go to college, work full-time, have a baby,
manage a toddler, fix up a house and start a business [all] at the same time. It
sounds ridiculous, but many young couples do just that and are then surprised
when their marriage falls apart. Why wouldn’t it? The only time they see each
other is when they are worn out! You must reserve time for one another if you
 want to keep your love alive.” This is how Dr. James Dobson, a Christian
psychologist, responded to the question, “What are the major marriage killers in
contemporary marriage?” in his book titled “Love for a Lifetime: Building a
Marriage That Will Go the Distance”
96) “Sometimes it’s like being on opposites sides of a chasm and lovingly building a
bridge toward each other.” Becca Kaufman and Paula Ramsey
97) “A father: The first man in your life to give you unconditional love, and the one
who every man after is compared to.” Becca Kaufman and Paula Ramsey
98) “Throughout our years together, we had built up a history and a closeness subtle
we didn’t even know it was there.” Erma Bombeck
99) “For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the
one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.” Bill Cosby
100) “Love another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”
Michael Leunig
101) “Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed.” Thomas Traherne
102) “Think not because you are wed that all your courtship’s at the end.”
Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza
103) “Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.” Robert Browning
104) “I love you. I want to be together all the time. When I think about us, I am
thinking about forever.” Willis Newton
105) “I was so much fun, we proposed to each other all day long.” Melissa
Errico
106) “Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.” Charles
Caleb Colton
107) “How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches.” George Elliston
108) “She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, hard, but O the glory of
the winning were she won!” George Meredith
109) “The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are
strong.” George Bidault
110) “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't
believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them,
make them.” George Bernard Shaw
111) “I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I
live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.” George Bernard Shaw
112) “God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the
electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God
as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else
to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the
rocks, but into the desired haven.” George MacDonald
113) “The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.” Jacob
Bronowski
114) “Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.” H. Jackson Brown Jr.
115) “Hope deferred makes the heart sick; but when dreams come true at last, there
is life and joy.” Proverbs 13
116) “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” Erich Fromm
117) “You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.” Erika Cosby
118) “One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears – by listening to
them.” Dean Rusk, former U.S. Secretary of State
119) “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become
superfluous.” Ingrid Bergman
120) “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their
mother.” Theodore Hesburgh
121) “Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless;
peacocks and lilies, for example.” John Ruskin
122) “What we think or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little
consequence. The only consequence is what we do.” John Ruskin
123) “There is no wealth but life.” John Ruskin
124) “Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”
Lydia M. Child
125) “Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.” Joseph Barth
126) “A mother laughs our laughter, sheds our tears, returns our love, fears our
fears, she lives our joys, cares our cares, and all our hopes and dreams she
shares.” Julia Summers
127) “Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope
outlives them all.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
128) “I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should
share the passion and action of his time.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
129) “A page of history is worth a volume of logic.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
130) “People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy
after.” Oliver Goldsmith
131) “If the soul be happily disposed, everything becomes capable of affording
entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.” Oliver Goldsmith
132) “No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his
mouth shut.” Sam Rayburn
133) “Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers
are not great because of their techniques; they are great because of their
passion.” Martha Graham
134) “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you
from age.” Jeanne Moreau
135) “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s
protection.” Sigmund Freud
136) “Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
Dr. Karl Menninger
137) “Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what they
can do when they stick together.” Fay Seevers
138) “To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” William M.
Thackeray
139) “‘I think patience is what love is,’ he said, ‘because how could you love
somebody with-out it?” Jane Howard
140) “Trouble is a part of life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who
loves you enough to love you.” Dinah Shore
141) “Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than
take away a moment.” Pearl Bailey
142) “A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
Thomas a Kempis
143) “A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.”
Elbert Hubbard
144) “Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power flows to
the man who knows how.” Elbert Hubbard
145) “For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on
the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down,
to strengthen whilst one strands.” Christina Rossetti
146) “Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being.
Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” Albert
Schweitzer
147) “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness
causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” Albert
Schweitzer
148) “Children and mothers never truly part bound in the beating of each other’s
heart.” Charlotte Gray
149) “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful
as expectation of something better tomorrow.” Orison Marden
150) “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” Thomas Campbell
151) “A promise made is a debt unpaid.” Robert W. Service
152) “In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our
future.” Alex Henry
153) “A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.” Thomas Fuller, M.D.
154) “We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.” Agnes Repplier
155) “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you
want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” Harry to Sally in “When
Harry Met Sally”
156) “We are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”
Gwendolyn Brooks
157) “He who laughs, lasts.” Mary Pettibone Poole
158) “Even for two people who are very much in love, learning to live together is full
of challenges. How comforting it is to discover that the conflicts we face are not
unique to our own relationship!” Marilyn McCoo
159) “People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife.
The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing.
Allow for room to grow.” Erma Bombeck
160) “There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.” Billy Graham
161) “Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.” Billy Sunday
162) “Listen to me, Mister. You’re my knight in shining armor . . . don’t you forget it.”
Ethel Thayer to Norman Thayer in on “On Golden Pond”
163) “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I
never have to live without.” Winnie the Pooh
164) “Real love stories never have endings.” Richard Bach
 -The Coveys-
Coveys-
165) “You don’t accept callings because you have time; you accept callings because
you have faith. You don’t pay tithing because you have tithing; you pay tithing
because you have faith.” Stephen R. Covey
166) “Have faith be our watchword, not fear.” Stephen R. Covey
167) “There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, hinder or control
the firm resolve of a determined soul.” Stephen R. Covey
168) “Begin with the end in mind.” Stephen R. Covey
169) “The best way to predict your future is to create one.” Stephen R. Covey
170) “To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.” Stephen
R. Covey
171) “The key to any family is how you treat the child who tests you the most. Then
the other children know that their love is unconditional love.” Stephen R. Covey
172) “Freedom is the fruit of discipline.” Stephen R. Covey
173) “True leadership is conveying true self-worth to the individual so that he
believes himself.” President Covey (BYU Stake counselor)
174) “The social mirror is the crazy in the carnival. The social mirror portrays the
distorted, contorted, inaccurate mirror. And if that’s all you saw you would
believe it.” (the social mirror tends to be comparison based) President Covey
175) “Comparisons do not represent accurately our self-maps.” President Covey
176) “God doesn’t compare. He sets standards and then invites to follow.” President
Covey
177) “Believing in Him is good but it is equally important to believe what He says
about us, about our potential, our faculties and our identities” President Covey

-President Hill (other BYU Stake Presidents)-

Presidents)-
178) “Everything. All things are spiritual.” President Hill (stake president in BYU
stake)
179) “Leaving Church early without taking the sacrament is like paying tithing on
stolen money.” President Hill
180) “The world focuses on safe sex, (while) the church focuses on sacred sex.”
President Hill
181) “There is a difference between a mistake and a sin.” President Hill
182) “Let’s get off our womps.” President Hill
183) “Let’s be celestial personalities.” President Hill
184) “It seems like nowadays we are paying more attention to Abercrombie and
Fitch instead of Hinckley and Foust; Tommy Hilfiger instead of Tommy
Monson.” President Hill
185) “When we raise the one we must be prepared to raise the other to hold up the
arms of our leaders in battle.” President Hill (Hymn #85 How Firma Foundation
*Isaiah 41:10; 43:2-5; The Lord always has His hand raised and outstretched all
the day long to sustain us and comfort us in all times of our lives.)
186) “When the crucial moment arrives the day of preparation has come to a close.”
President Hill
187) “If people learned to share everything they have we would all be prepared.”
President Hill
188) “The way to peace is not through spiritual marathons of cram sessions but
rather through consistent effort.” President Hill
189) “Our everyday efforts, prayers and scriptures add drops of oil to our reservoir.”
President Hill (The parable of the “Ten Virgins,” *Matthew 25:1-13; D&C 45,
63:54) *See “The SOURCE” under “The SEVEN P’s”)
190) “Some people think that the world is their oyster. Others feel as if they are the
oyster, plucked from the sea, cracked open and everything precious taken from
them.” President Hill
191) “We must pace ourselves, put one foot in front of the other, one step at a time.
We don’t have to be better than anyone else or be perfect today.” President Hill
(Just do all that you are capable of.)
192) “I do all I can do and He does all that I cannot yet do.” President Hill
193) “When I am well then I will take the medicine, then I will be worthy of it.”
President Hill
194) “Humble yourselves and realize that we are fallen creatures – do so, and you
will be ahead of all of us.” President Griffith
195) “If what you are teaching cannot be related to the atonement, you either haven’t
thought about it enough or it ain’t worth teaching.” President Griffith
196) “In the Gospel, you cannot give of yourself with out getting back, it’s an eternal
principle.” President Watterson

-Bishopric 159th Ward BYU-

BYU-
197) “Oh that we all could be durable.” Bishop Tom Tippits
198) “Your choices will dwindle when bad choices are made.” Tom Tippits
199) “The song of redeeming love is not a solo.” Tom Tippits
200) “You cannot work out your own salvation and you cannot live your life as an
island.” Tom Tippits
201) “The atonement takes away the ‘chance’ out of life, if we rely on it.” Bishop
Tippits
202) “Sometimes it may seem like you’re trying to nail jello to a tree.” Brother Ainge

203) “I believe that is his justice and mercy [God] will give us the maximum reward
for our acts, give us all that he can give, and in the reverse, I believe that he will
impose upon us the minimum penalty which it is possible for him to impose.” J.
Reuben Clark
204) “Into the field of religion, the holy of holies of the soul of man, this modern world
state also enters, to dethrone God and exalt the State into God’s place. This is
the archest treason of them all. For man robbed of God becomes a brute.” J.
Reuben Clark
205) “Our faith must not be difficult to detect.” J. Reuben Clark
206) “The time will come when no man will be able to live on borrowed light.” Heber
C. Kimball

-Orson F. Whitney-
Whitney-
207) “Art thou in truth? Then what of Him who bought thee with His blood?
Who plunged into devouring seas and snatched thee from the flood? Free will is
thine-free agency. To wield for right or wrong; But thou must answer unto Him to
whom all souls belong. Bend to the dust that head “unbowed,” small part of life’s
great whole! And see in Him and Him alone, the Captain of thy Soul.” Orson F.
Whitney
208) “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers
to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude
and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we
endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our
souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the
children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that
we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more
like our Father and mother in Heaven.” Orson Whitney (quoted in Improvement
Era, Mar. 1966, 211 Robert D. Hales)
209) “ . . . And women who have suffered, ...bring forth the riches of their
sympathy and condolences as a blessing to those now in need. Could they do
this had they not suffered themselves? . . . Is not this God's purpose in causing
his children to suffer? He wants them to become more like himself. God has
suffered far more than man ever did or ever will, and is therefore the great source
of sympathy and consolation.” Orson F. Whitney

210) “There are no mistakes, only opportunities for growth and learning. And
learning from the past gives meaning, and even purpose, to some of the pain and
heartache collected along the way.” ??? (General Conference)
211) “Failure itself can be a success if 3 questions are answered: (1) What
happened? (2) What caused it? (3) What can I learn from this experience?” H.
Stephen Glenn (Speaker and Youth Advocate)
212) “For every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there
be one, hurry and find it. If there be none, then never mind it.” Quoted by
LeGrand Richards

-Excerpts From Hymns-

Hymns-
213) “Who am I to judge another, When I walk imperfectly?” #220
214) “Although in agony he hung, No murm’ring word escaped his tongue. His
high commission to fulfill,...He magnified his Father’s will. He dies a sacrifice for
sin,...That man may live and glory win.” Eliza Snow Behold the Great Redeemer
Die #191
215) “Master, the tempest is raging! The billows are tossing high! The sky is
o’ershadowed with blackness. No shelter or help is nigh. Carest thou not that
we perish? How canst thou lie asleep when each moment so madly is
threat’ning a grave in the angry deep? The winds and the waves shall obey thy
will: Peace, be still, peace, be still. Whether the wrath of the storm tossed sea or
demons or men whatever it be, No waters can swallow the ship where lies the
Master of ocean and earth and skies. They all shall sweetly obey thy will: Peace,
 be still; peace, be still. They all shall sweetly obey thy will: Peace, peace, be
still.” Mary Ann Baker Master the Tempest is Raging #105
216) “When through the deep waters I call thee to go, The rivers of sorrow shall
not thee o’reflow, For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless,...And sanctify to
thee thy deepest distress. When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, My
grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply. The flame shall not hurt thee; I only
design...Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine...The soul that on Jesus
hath leaned for repose, I will not, I cannot, desert to his foes; That soul, though
all hell should endeavor to shake,...I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.” How
Firm a Foundation #85
217) “It may not be on the mountain height, Or over the stormy sea, It may not
be at the battle’s front, My Lord will have need of me. But if, by a still, small voice
he calls, To paths that I do not know, I’ll answer, dear Lord, with my hand in
thine: I’ll go were you want me to go. I’ll go where you want me to go, dear Lord,
Over mountain or plain or sea; I’ll say what you want me to say, dear Lord; I’ll be
what you want me to be. Perhaps today there are loving words, Which Jesus
would have me speak; There may be now in the paths of sin, Some wond’rer
whom I should seek. O Savior, if thou wilt be my guide, Tho dark and rugged the
way, My voice shall echo the message sweet: I’ll say what you want me to say.
There’s surely somewhere a lowly place, In earth’s harvest fields so wide, Where
I may labor through life’s short day, For Jesus, the Crucified. So trusting my all
to thy tender care, And knowing thou lovest me, I’ll do thy will with a heart
sincere: I’ll be what you want me to be. But if, by a still, small voice he calls to
paths that I do not know, I’ll answer, dear Lord, with my hand in thine: I’ll go
where you want me to go.” I’ll Go Where You Want Me to Go #270
218) “More holiness give me, More strivings within, More patience in suff’ring,
More sorrow for sin, More faith in my Savior, More sense of His care, More joy in
His service, More purpose in prayer.” More Holiness Give Me #131
219) “Ye fearful Saints, fresh courage take; The clouds ye so much dread Are
big with mercy and shall break In blessings on your head.” God Moves in a
Mysterious Way (Hymn No. 285, verse 2)

220) “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants His
footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. Deep in unfathomable mines, of
never-failing skill, He treasures up His bright designs, And works His sovereign
will.” William Cowper 326
221) “He has no hope who never had a fear.” William Cowper

MISCELLANEOUS QUOTES (All Walks of Life)

-Mountain Quotes-
Quotes-
1) “The Forest Preserve is essentially a quiet and healthful retreat from the turmoils
and artificialities of a busy urban life.” Hinman Decision
2) “For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion
of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from the clutches of a
 mechanistic civilization. To us the enjoyment of solitude, complete
independence, and the beauty of undefined panoramas is absolutely essential to
happiness.” Bob Marshall
3) “Of course we weren't lost. We were merely where we shouldn't have been,
without knowing where that was.” T. Morris Longstreth
4) “Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory.” David Breashears
5) “I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me.” Peter Habeler
6) “Altitude is the great equalizer.” Unknown
7) “Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.” Ed Viesters
8) “We will stomp to the summit with the wind in our teeth.” George Mallory
9) “Because it is there.” George Mallory
10) “Don't forget, it's really just a big pile of rocks.” David Breashears
11) Your head is totally worked, your arms twitch like they're gonna fall off, your
fingers are cracked, swollen and bleeding. I find it all so peaceful.” Tommy
Caldwell – Climber
12) “It's about function, not style.” Jon Martina
13) “Stay beautiful but don’t stay down underground too long. Don’t turn into a mole,
or a worm, or a root, or a stone. Come on out into the sunlight. Breathe in trees.
Knock out mountains. Commune with snakes, & be the very hero of the birds.
Don’t forget to poke your head up & blink think. Walk all around. Swim upstream.
Don’t forget to fly.” Al Young
14) “Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to be added, but when
there is nothing more to be taken away.” ???
15) “Take only pictures, Leave only footprints and kill only time.” ???
16) “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” ???

17) “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to
labor.” Robert L. Stevenson
18) “Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.” Robert Louis
Stevenson
19) “You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or
perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?” Robert Louis
Stevenson
20) “The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the
domination of outward conditions.” Robert Louis Stevenson
21) “What the mind can conceive and believe can achieve.” Napoleon Hill
22) “There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of
purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
Napoleon Hill
23) “Victory belongs the most persevering.” Napoleon Bonaparte
24) “You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to
work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as
a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a
master of the art.” St. Francis De Sales
25) “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing
makes it happen.” Frank Lloyd Wright
26) “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”
Frank A. Clark
27) “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
William Feather
28) “Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.”
Robert Anthony
29) “We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised
as insoluble problems.” John W. Gardner
30) “Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books, live with
the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and do
not wait for or depend on other people.” Thomas Davidson
31) “Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.” Charles Luckman
32) “Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear.” Simeon Ben
Eleazar
33) “One man all by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a
world.” Hans Margolius
34) “You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” Albert Camus
35) “Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without
greatness.” Albert Camus
36) “Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.” Wilson
Mizner
37) “I’d rather be good than great.” Harvey Fletcher

-Mother Theresa, Gandhi, etc.-

etc.-
38) “If you judge people, you never have time to love them.” Mother Theresa of
Calcutta
39) “I can do no great things, only small things with great love.” Mother Teresa
40) “The fruit of love is service.” Mother Teresa
41) “I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't
have such faith in me.” (“I know that God won’t give me anything I can’t handle. I
just wish He didn’t trust me so much.” – *2 Corinthians 7:16) Mother Teresa
42) “Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of
love.” Mother Teresa
43) “Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your
children, to your wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor . . . Let no one ever
come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of
God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your
smile, kindness in your warm greeting.” Mother Teresa
44) “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for
bread.” Mother Theresa
45) “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we
need is to love without getting tired.” Mother Theresa
46) “Small things done in great love, bring joy and peace.” Mother Theresa
47) “If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.” Mother Theresa
48) “A smile is the beginning of love.” Mother Theresa
49) “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Gandhi
50) “The fragrance of the rose always lingers on the hand of the giver.” Gandhi
51) “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mohandas K. Gandhi
52) “Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.”
Myla Kabat-Zinn
53) “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it,
bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” Antoine De Saint-Exupery
54) “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the
same direction.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
55) “Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, happiness, which
is everything in the world.” Blaise Pascal
56) “There are three gates of perception upon the universe: the sensual, the
intellectual, and the emotional.” Blaise Pascal
57) “The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it
not than in those who know it.” Blaise Pascal
58) “Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose
circumference is nowhere.” Blaise Pascal
59) “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.” Blaise Pascal
60) “I apologize for the length of this letter but I didn’t have time to make it shorter.”
Blaise Pascal
61) “With love and patience, nothing is impossible.” Daisaku Ikeda
62) “The sun will set without thy assistance.” The Talmud
63) “Not everything should be speculation; you must also act.” Baltasar Gracian
64) “Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead
to game in a field that has none.” I Ching
65) “If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a
great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the
university.” Muhammad Yunus (Founder of Grameen Bank)
66) “And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy,
shall guide your course.” Kahlil Gibran
67) “Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.”
Kahlil Gibran
68) “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of
yourself that you truly give.” Kahlil Gibran
69) “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Kahlil Gibran

-St. Charles Augustine Sainte-

Sainte-Beuve-
Beuve-
70) “Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.” St.
Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve
71) “This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. Charity is
no substitute for justice withheld.” St Augustine
72) “The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.” St Augustine
73) “The greatest evil is physical pain.” St Augustine
74) “To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to
forsake it.” St Augustine
75) “Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even
to him in whom it is?” St Augustine
76) “Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may
understand.” St Augustine
77) “Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled
with that whereof thou art empty.” St Augustine
78) “Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost,
and was found, is saved from being lost again.” St Augustine
79) “God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” St. Augustine
80) “Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.” St. Augustine

-Quotations
Quotations from the HUG Book-
Book-
81) “The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another’s
existence.” Sue Atchley Ebaugh
82) “It is always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.” Malcolm S. Forbes
83) “A hug is embracing vulnerability and having it embrace you back.” Martha
Bolton
84) “Love is always open arms.” Leo Buseag’lia
85) “Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves.” James Matthew Barrie
86) “People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.” John Harrigan
87) HUGS – How You Get Squeezed
88) “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” Paul
Boese
89) “The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” G.K. Chesterton (this
would apply only for a little while for the eternal bonds in the temple make IT last
and never LOST)
90) “Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing
to see less.” Rabbi Julius Gordon
91) “Too many are waiting for God to do something for them rather than with them.”
Ralph W. Sockman
92) “Do all things with love.” Og Madino
93) “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone,
you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and
energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” Barbara
De Angelis
94) “The art of love . . . is largely the art of persistence.” Albert Ellis
95) “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have
truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
Henry Drummond
96) “Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we
have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk
nothing and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well.” Mary Cholmondeley
97) “Looking back I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.”
David Grayson
 -Musical Artists and Excerpts from Songs-
Songs-
98) “I never shall yield, ‘till we come face to face.” Les Miserables
99) “There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea
whose time has come.” Victor Hugo
100) “Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too
weak to bear it.” Victor Hugo
101) “Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” Victor Hugo
102) “The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved – loved
for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” Victor Hugo
103) “To love another person is to see the face of God.” Victor Hugo
104) “After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is
music.” Aldous Huxley
105) “Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see
infinity.” Stevie Wonder
106) “Have I ever told you you’re my hero? You’re everything I would like to be.
I can climb higher than an eagle. You are the wind beneath my wings.” Larry
Henley and Jeff Silbar
107) “I keep a close watch on this heart of mine. I keep my eyes wide open all
the time. I keep the ends out for the tie that binds. Because you're mine, I walk
the line." ("I Walk the Line") Johnny Cash
108) “My love is like an open book, if you take a look you can read between the
lines.” The Nylons
109) “See the bird with the leaf in her mouth, through the flood all the colors
came out.” U2
110) “You’re on the road but you have no destination.” U2
111) “You were my lesson I had to learn.” Madonna
112) “When old friends greet each other, shake hands and say ‘how do you
do?’ What they’re really trying to say is ‘I love you’.” Isaiah (Hawaiian Singer)
113) “To love another person is to see the face of God.” Cosette in Les
Miserables
114) “Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision
and its ultimate expression.” Isaac Bashevis (Singer)
115) “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” Vanessa Williams
116) “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.” Bob Dylan
117) “I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat but
always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted.
God forbid love ever leave you empty-handed. I hope you still feel small when
you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more
opens. Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get
the choice to sit it out or dance...I hope you dance, I hope you dance. I hope
you never fear those mountains in the distance. Never settle for the path of least
resistance. Livin’ might mean takin’ chances but they’re worth makin’. Lovin’
might be a mistake but it’s worth makin’. Don’t let some hell-bent heart leave
you bitter. When you come close to sellin’ out reconsider. Give the heavens
above more than just a passing glance. And when you get the choice to sit it our
 or dance...I hope you dance, I hope you dance. Time is a wheel in constant
motion always rolling us along. Tell me who wants to look back on their years
and wonder, where those years have gone...I hope you dance, I hope you
dance, I hope you dance.” Lee Ann Womack
118) “You fill up my senses. Like a night in the forest. Like the mountains in
springtime. Like a walk in the rain. Like a storm in the desert. Like a sleepy blue
ocean. You fill up my senses. Come fill me again.
Come let me love you. Let me give my life to you. Let me drown in your laughter.
Let me die in your arms. Let me lay down beside you. Let me always be with
you. Come let me love you. Come love me again.
Let me give my life to you. Come let me love you. Come love me again.
You fill up my senses. Like a night in the forest. Like the mountains in
springtime. Like a walk in the rain. Like a storm in the desert. Like a sleepy blue
ocean. You fill up my senses. Come fill me again.” Words and music by John
Denver
119) “My parents were married for four years before I was born. I suppose that,
in some way, accounts for the abundance of love that I felt as a child. As the
first-born, I was given all of their attention – almost to the point of wonderment.
How fortunate a child is to be welcomed as a blessing and a gift from God. What
a difference it must make in a young person’s life to be welcomed instead of
considered as an accident, or as a physical and natural happening, or as an
unwanted child. Who can imagine what far-reaching consequences the family’s
reception has in the life of a child and later of the adult.” Wladimer Jan
Kochanski (“The People’s Pianist”)
120) “Today, when I see children, I look deep into their eyes, to their very souls,
for that glimmer which can reveal which path their lives are destined to take.
What an enormous responsibility is placed on the parents when a young soul is
placed in their hand.” Wladimer Jan Kochanski (“The People’s Pianist”)
121) “I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in
my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.” Ludwig van
Beethoven

-BYU 10th, 165th and 159th-

122) “The road to obedience is not an express-laned highway.” Zach
123) “Failure only comes because of the lack of faith.” Aaron Watts
124) “The Three Fold Mission of the world: Drugs, sex and rock and roll.”
Barrett
125) “We may not become perfect, but we can become complete. And in that
there is a complete difference.” Barrett
126) “We shouldn’t run faster than we have strength but we can still run.” Nate
Orion
127) “Satan’s attack consists of a siege on the fortress of motherhood.” Nate
Orion
128) “Family is like a PBJ. The bread being the father as the support. The PBJ
all sweet, soft and full of substance is the mother.” Nate Orion
129) “Family is not about keeping score unless you are making music.” Nate
Orion
130) “You can’t get excited about sin without thinking about it.” Nate Orion
131) “There is nothing more destructive than breaking the law of chastity.
There is nothing that will destroy a Zion-like society quicker.” Brandon
132) “If we don’t understand the importance, there is no need for preparation.”
Eric Buhler
133) “The gospel means different things to different people.” Lisa P.
134) “Being honest will never go out of style.” Lisa P.
135) “Without spiritual preparations the temporary preparations will be
meaningful.” Lisa P.
136) “I am trying, but it takes more than that, it takes doing.” Elder Deloy
Blanchard
137) “There are no plateaus on the mountain of the Lord.” Mikey Nader
138) “The only way to have peace and security is to be prepared.” Brain K.
139) “Even though I seem to forget to remember Him always, He still leads me
to do what is best. He loves me more than I could ever understand and He will
not leave my side unless I push Him away.” (Ether 12:41) Angela
140) “Passive guys finish last.” Scotty Neilson
141) “The Book of Mormon is like a glorified journal. One that in many ways
reflects our own.” Kevin Tame Jr.
142) “Discouragement is faith that things won’t work.” Jake
143) “Your family will not be on the rocks if founded upon the Rock itself.” Cort
Andrews
144) “You haven’t heard the point until you let it register.” Wade Andrews
145) “Christ asked us to kill the animals in the field, now we must kill the animal
in us.” Luke Drake

-Jim Gough (BYU Art History Professor)-

Professor)-
146) “God is not gender-specific, He is relationship specific.” Gough
147) “It is a blessing to have a dream...so for heaven’s sake go out and do
something about it! Don’t trade your dreams for what you think is security.”
Gough
148) “If you’re going to the holy land to find Christ, you have got to make sure
to bring Him with you.” Gough
149) “Satan can’t create, he just can’t. He only twists. To create is an act of
love.” Gough
150) “At times it is like coming back to an emotional freeze.” Gough
151) “It is a dedicated house of worship for the process of the sanctification of
the soul.” Gough
152) “God is not an Absentee Father.” Gough
153) “Don’t use education as justification for your ignorance.” Gough
154) “Nudity does not mean pornography.” Gough
155) “Being obedient builds our confidence.” Gough
156) “’I AM that I AM’ He knew exactly who He was because He obeyed God’s
will.” Gough
157) “Principles mean nothing if all they are, are words.” Gough
158) “The only dumb question is the one you don’t ask.” Gough
159) “The more things change the more things stay the same.” Gough (quoting
another)
160) “Refuse to paint what sells.” Gough
161) “The taste of the masses is at best, mediocre.” Gough
162) “A great sign of nobility and wisdom is knowing when to offer what you
have.” Gough
163) “You’re never going to know if it’s right until you face the feelings you’re
feeling now.” Gough
164) “The real works of art are people. They are the real masterpieces of the
master creator.” Gough
165) “Human behavior is all too painfully predictable.” Gough
166) “We can all be Mormons with our giving up what’s inside, because that is
what God created us with and that is what’s important.” Gough
167) “Something that is so ordinary speaks to the success of the movement not
to the fault.” Gough
168) “It is one thing to throw away a paper plate and spoon. It’s another to
throw away a relationship.” Gough
169) “Don’t only be concerned with the label or all you’ll get is trash.” Gough
170) “A true king doesn’t need a crown to define His nobility.” Gough
171) “Where much is required, much is given.” Gough
172) “The true humble follower of Christ doesn’t need someone to tell them
what’s wrong. They need someone to help them get through.” Gough
173) “The doctor doesn’t care how you got sick unless it’s part of the cure.”
Gough
174) “He helps me through the tough times and is with me through the good
times.” Gough
175) “Beauty does not transcend time or culture.” Gough
176) “Art is life and life isn’t always beautiful.” Gough
177) “There is a difference between seeing and looking.” Gough
178) “Sometimes doing the right things for the right reasons takes a long time.”
Gough
179) “The temple has to go through you. Not you through the temple.” Gough
180) “God sees us how and what we can be but He loves us for who we are.”
Gough
181) “Service should never be a “service project.” A service project has a
beginning and an end.” Gough
182) “None of us doubt that God will do what’s best for us. We are just afraid of
how painful it will be.” Gough
183) “The teacher who teaches, teaches the student to love the teachings.”
Gough

-Vern Sommerfeldt (BYU Religion Professor)-

Professor)-
184) “Our relationship with the words of Christ determines our relationship with
the Savior himself. Or relationship with Him determines our relationship with
everyone else.” Professor Sommerfeldt
185) “The very essence of Heavenly Father’s love is shown by how a man
loves a woman and how a woman loves a man.” Sommerfeldt
186) “By definition eternal life is married life.” Sommerfeldt
187) “Great desires produce great results.” Sommerfeldt
188) “You and I right now would be terrible Gods.” Sommerfeldt
189) “Do not construct in your mind a God that is a perfectionist because He
won’t reward you for any progress that you make.” Sommerfeldt
190) “There are two paths to take in life, and the reward of the easier path is
just that . . . it is easy.” Sommerfeldt

-Kent Brooks (BYU Religion Professor)-

Professor)-
191) “How can you help Him to heal?” Brooks
192) “Gratitude is a gift of the Spirit.” Brooks
193) “Mortal experience and happiness are connected with progress.” Brooks
194) “The stronger the faith the greater capacity for joy.” Brooks
195) “Mortal life tests our faith yet it opens the doors for greater joy.” Brooks
196) “We made covenants about what we were to do here on earth (see
Patriarchal Blessing).” Brooks
197) “The wisdom of the counsel doesn’t come until you live it.” Brooks (Ether
12:6)

-Professor Warner Woodworth-

Woodworth-
198) “Make it your quest to find and fulfill your informal calling in life.” Professor
Warner Woodworth
199) “Rock the boat! Change the world! Become a social entrepreneur!”
Professor Warner Woodworth
200) “Be willing to fight for the underdog.” Professor Warner Woodworth
201) “Don’t just do things differently, do different things.” Professor Warner
Woodworth
202) “Seek to understand your personal stewardship.” Professor Warner
Woodworth

-Professor Shandon Gubler (BYU

(BYU Strategy Professor)-
Professor)-
203) “I would fund methods of teaching children.” Shandon Gubler
204) “In consulting, people are an asset rather than an expense.” Shandon
Gubler
205) “Every traditional breakthrough is a breakthrough with a traditional way of
doing things.” Shandon Gubler

-C.S. Lewis-
Lewis-
206) “The safest road to Hell is the gradual one.” C.S. Lewis
207) “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses,
to remember that the dullest and most uninterested person you talk to may one
 day be a creature which . . . you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else
a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.
All day long we are in some degree helping each other to one or the other of
these destinations. It is in a light of these overwhelming possibilities; it is with
awe and circumspection proper to them that we should conduct all our dealings
with one another all friendship, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no
ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures,
arts, civilizations, these are not mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a
gnat. But it is immortals, whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and
exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.” C.S. Lewis
208) “Christ, who said to the disciples 'Ye have not chosen me, but I have
chosen you,' can truly say to every group of Christian friends 'You have not
chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.' The Friendship is
not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. It
is the instrument by which God reveals to each the beauties of all the others.
They are no greater than the beauties of a thousand other men; by Friendship
God opens our eyes to them. They are, like all beauties, derived from Him, and
then, in a good Friendship, increased by Him through the Friendship itself, so
that it is His instrument for creating as well as for revealing. At this feast it is He
who has spread the board and it is He who has chosen the guests. It is He, we
may dare to hope, who sometimes does, and always should, preside.” C.S.
Lewis (The Four Loves)
209) “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At
first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains
right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs
needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking
the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make
sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a
different house from the one you thought of -- throwing out a new wing here,
putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You
thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is
building a palace.” C. S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
210) “The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the
massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed
personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in
the centre of our being.” C.S. Lewis
211) “Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at
the point of highest reality. A chastity of honesty or mercy which yields to
danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions.” C.S. Lewis
212) “Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just
this power of always trying again.” C.S. Lewis
213) “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
214) “I Believe in Christ as I believe in the sun at noon day, not that I can see it,
but by it, I can see everything else.” CS. Lewis
215) “Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are
companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.” C.S. Lewis
216) “Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in
the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural.” C.S.
Lewis
217) (In anticipation of his wife’s death, Lewis asks:) “Has He not promised
comfort to those who mourn?” C.S. Lewis
218) “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.” C.S.
Lewis
219) “All that is not eternal is certainly out of date.” C.S. Lewis
220) “Goodness is, so to speak, itself . . . Evil is a parasite, not an original
thing.” C.S. Lewis
221) “I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is
almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.” C.S. Lewis
222) “Evil comes from the abuse of free will.” C.S. Lewis
223) “The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not their own.”
C.S. Lewis
224) “If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.”
C.S. Lewis
225) “The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely
the keys.” C.S. Lewis
226) “As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even
where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final
victory over materialism.” C.S. Lewis
227) “We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and
therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” C.S. Lewis
228) “Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought
to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.” C.S. Lewis
229) “Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say
whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us,
and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?” C.S.
Lewis
230) “Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except
unformed matter has some natural inferior.” C.S. Lewis
231) “Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the
animal organism.” C.S. Lewis
232) “Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation,
to be Nature's conquest of Man.” C.S. Lewis
233) “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but
shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” C.S. Lewis
234) “Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret?
There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” C S Lewis
235) “Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will
get neither.” C S Lewis
236) “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the
present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since
 Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have
become so ineffective in this.” C S Lewis
237) “We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were
even told, ''Blessed are they that morn.” C S Lewis
238) “The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer,
but why some do not.” C S Lewis
239) “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of
course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above
you.” C S Lewis
240) “Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about
the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me
about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
C S Lewis
241) “I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it,
but by it I can see all else.” C S Lewis
242) “You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a
fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation
would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of
the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of
Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of
anyone else I have read.” C S Lewis
243) “It is when I turn to Christ, when I give myself up to His personality, that I
first begin to have a real personality of my own. Your real, new self will not
come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for
Him. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self . . . look for Christ and you
will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.” C.S. Lewis (“Mere
Christianity” p. 226)
244) “When the Author of the play comes on stage, the play is over.” C.S.
Lewis

-James Allen (“As A Man Thinketh”)-

Thinketh”)-
245) “A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently
cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and
will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless
weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.” James Allen
246) “Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained,
and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the
mine of his soul; and that he is the maker of his character, the moulder of his life,
and the builder of his destiny, he may unerringly prove, if he will watch, control,
and alter his thoughts, tracing their effects upon himself, upon others, and upon
his life and circumstances, linking cause and effect by patient practice and
investigation, and utilising his every experience, even to the most trivial,
everyday occurrence, as a means of obtaining that knowledge of himself which
is Understanding, Wisdom, Power. In this direction, as in no other, is the law
absolute that “He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be
 opened”; for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man
enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge.” James Allen
247) “Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored
and brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful of divine
promise and confidence than this – that man is the master of thought, the
moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and
destiny.” James Allen
248) “A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of
all his thoughts.” James Allen
249) “The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and
also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls
to the level of its unchastened desires. Every thought-seed sown or allowed to
fall into the mind, and to take root there, produces its own, blossoming sooner or
later into act, and bearing its own furtive of opportunity and circumstance. Good
thoughts bear good fruit; bad thoughts, bad fruit.” James Allen

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-

Jr.-
250) “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King Jr.
251) “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
252) “Everyone can be great. Because anybody can serve.” Martin Luther
King, Jr.
253) “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge
which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.” Martin Luther King,
Jr.

-Artisans and Authors-

Authors-
254) “A good painter has two chief objects to paint-man and the intention of his
soul. The former is easy, the latter hard, for it must be expressed by gestures and the
movement of the limbs...A painting will only be wonderful for the beholder by making
that which is not so appear raised and detached from the wall.” Anthony Blunt (Artistic
Theory in Italy)
255) “First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or
they’ll eventually conquer you.” Dr. Rob Gilbert
256) “Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of
success.” Dr. Rob Gilbert
257) “Only put of until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
Picasso
258) “Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle leads to stern resolve. He
who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” Leonardo da Vinci
259) “They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to
change them yourselves.” Andy Warhol
260) “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” Salvador Dali
 261) “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to
be ultimately at peace with himself.” Abraham Maslow (a child of God must be
righteous if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself)
262) “Some people grumble because roses have thorns. I am thankful that
thorns have roses.” Alphonse Karr
263) “Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare,
and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” Peter Seller
264) “He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” Thomas Fuller M.D.
265) “If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.” Clarence
Darrow
266) “I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a
single inch; and I will be heard.” William Lloyd Garrison
267) “Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path
for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let
them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self-
assuredness, and in faith.” Horacio A. Tenorio
268) “Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving
through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need
to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can
afford to live in it.” Ellen Goodman

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-

Goethe-
269) “What does not kill me makes me stronger.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
270) “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power, and magic in it.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
271) “A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.” Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
272) “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which
matter least.” Goethe
273) “I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element.
It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the
weather. I possess tremendous power to make a life miserable or joyous. I can be a
tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In
all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-
escalated. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as
they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” Goethe

-David Patterson-
Patterson-
274) “Those who have gazed into the eyes of an infant only seconds old and
who have then looked up to behold the world transformed know what it means to
realize, if only for a moment, what is infinitely precious. Infinity, you see, comes in
small packages.” David Patterson
275) “The home . . . might be better understood not as a place or a thing, but as
an event in the life of the holy.” David Patterson
276) “Marriage alone makes it possible to overcome a fundamental condition of
exile and thus dwell in the world.” David Patterson
277) “Indeed, only through the wife and the mother of a household does
blessing fall upon a home; for as the bearer of life she is the most intimately aligned
with the miracle and mystery of life.” David Patterson

-Authors and Poets-

Poets-
278) “We can’t do everything for everyone everywhere, but we can do
something for someone somewhere.” Richard L. Evans
279) “Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking
our potential." Black Elk
280) “Short of throwing away all the television sets, I really don’t know what we
can do about writing.” E.B. White
281) “Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank
whatever Gods may be for my unconquerable soul. It matters not how strait the gate,
how charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate; I am the
Captain of my Soul.” R.J. Cook
282) “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I’ve
tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.” Robert Frost
283) “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” Robert
Frost
284) “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” Robert Frost
285) “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
Robert Frost (Mending Wall - 1914)
286) “When in doubt make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line
between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So
what the hell, leap.” Cynthia Heimel
287) “No one is useless in the world who lightens the burdens of it for another.”
Charles Dickens
288) “Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from
mere excess of comfort.” Charles Dickens
289) “You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a
human boy! O running stream of sparkling joy to be a soaring human boy.” Charles
Dickens
290) “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us
is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we
believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any
experience that reveals the human spirit.” E.E. Cummings
291) “True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the
body, nourishment and refreshment.” William Penn
292) “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” William Blake
293) “Love is infallible; it has no errors, for all errors are the want of love.”
William Law
294) “Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” William Yeats
295) “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be
what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.” Wayne
Dyer
 296) “When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go, what to do -
it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.” Maxim
Gorky
297) “Nothing in the world is single; all things by law divine in one spirit mix and
mingle. Why not I with thine?” Percy Shelley
298) “Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive
it.” Karl Menninger
299) “Immature love says ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I
need you because I love you.’” Erich Fromm
300) “Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”
Erich Fromm
301) “Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where
teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” Arthur Koestler
302) “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffor
303) “Glory gives herself only to those who always dreamed of her.” Charles de
Gaulle
304) “The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live
with a purpose.” Michel de Montaigne
305) “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” Oscar Wilde
306) “Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” Oscar Wilde
307) “Always love your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” Oscar Wilde
308) “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde
309) “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of
habit by originality, overcomes everything.” George Lois
310) “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life,
when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
Charles Kingsley
311) “Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”
Jules Renard
312) “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” Roger
Crawford
313) “All brave men love, for he only is brave who has affections to fight for,
whether in the daily battle of life or in physical contests.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
314) “Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the
recognition.” Alexander Smith
315) “The world is rife with promises that are fast and falsely spoken. For man
in his deceptive way knows his promise can be broken. But when God makes a
promise, it remains forever true. For everything God promises he unalterably will do.
So when you are disillusioned, and every hope is blighted, recall the promises of God,
and your faith will be relighted.” Helen Steiner Rice
316) “The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and staunch he stands;
And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And his musket moulds in his hands. Time
was when the little toy dog was new, And the soldier was passing fair, And that was
the time when our Little Boy Blue Kissed them and put them there. Now, don't you go
till I come," he said, "And don't you make any noise!" So toddling off to his trundle-bed
He dreamt of the pretty toys. And, as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our
Little Boy Blue,— Oh! the years are many, the years are long, But the little toy friends
are true! Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand, Each in the same old place, Awaiting
the touch of a little hand, The smile of a little face. And they wonder, as waiting the
long years through, In the dust of that little chair, What has become of our Little Boy
Blue Since he kissed them and put them there.” Eugene Field

317) “When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask,
Compared to what?” Sydney J. Harris
318) “What naggers never understand is finely expressed in an old Yiddish
proverb: "Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong.” Sydney J.
Harris
319) “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the
things we did not do that is inconsolable.” Sydney J. Harris
320) “To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back
shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as
well as we can.” Sydney Smith
321) “It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more
perfect we are the more . . . quiet we become toward the defects of others.” Francois
Fenelon
322) “We all have sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of OTHERS!”
Larochefoucauld
323) “Two human loves make one divine.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning
324) “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any
wonder drug.” Patricia Neal
325) “Go gladden the lonely, the dreary; Go comfort the weeping, the weary;
Go scatter kind deeds on your way. Oh, make the world brighter today!” Mrs. Frank A.
Breck
326) “Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back
and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the
process.” Zig Ziglar
327) “Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most
comforting words of all...This too, shall pass.” (see D&C 121:1-10; 58:2-4) Ann
Landers
328) “The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your
convictions.” William F. Scolavino
329) “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed
until it is faced.” James Baldwin
330) “Money may buy the husk of many things, but not the kernal. It brings you
food, but not the appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends;
servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not happiness.” Henrik Ibsen
331) “Success is getting what you want. HAPPINESS is wanting what you get.”
Carl Trumbell Hayden
332) “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
enough people to make it worth the effort.” Herm Albright
 333) “Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The
sleeper must awaken.” Frank Herbert
334) “Make choices----not excuses.” Charles Givens (Book: Super Self)
335) “True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it
be lost.” Charles Caleb Colton

-Snoqualmie Valley Ward-

Ward-
336) “Don’t let your problems get you down-unless they get you down on your
knees.” YW
337) “If you don’t have an open heart, you’ll never have an open mind.” YW
338) “If you don’t have fun the right way, you won’t have fun after you’re dead.”
YM
339) “God allows U-turns.” YM
340) “Those who watch bad movies are just paying the adversary for lessons.”
YM
341) “The Holy Ghost can’t steer a parked car. You have to be moving to have
Him help you.” YM
342) “We have two things to accomplish in life...one is horizontal and one is
vertical. The horizontal thing we do is to come unto Christ...then he takes us on the
vertical to Heavenly Father. It is our responsibility to get to Christ....Christ's
responsibility to get us to the Father. We can get to the Father only by Him (Christ).”
Sister Hamm (a Bishop’s wife)
343) “Pride is concerned with WHO is right. Humility is concerned with WHAT
is right.” Jane Duffy
344) “Sometimes we need to learn that the earth still revolves around the sun
(Son) and not around us.” Carol Overson
345) “Prayer is the key that opens the day and the lock that protects the night.”
Trinette Brown
346) “The first meeting I had with the missionaries was the beginning of the end
of my loneliness.” Karly Larsen
347) “Jesus gave the hardest of all gifts, the gift of self.” Tori Dickson
348) “The temples can give us a “moment” to gain an “eternal” perspective.”
Brad Witt
349) “There is no right way to be wrong.” Louise Sypher
350) “Well taught doctrines and principles have a more dramatic impact upon
children than do ‘rules.’ Rose Sypher
351) “The best way to lighten someone’s burden is to bring him or her back into
the fold.” Belinda Sypher
352) “Gossip is like talking to a canyon wall. Our words just echo off and come
back to hurt us.” Samantha Reising
353) “Our heart strings are instinctively linked to our spiritual strings.” Eric
Glenn
354) “There are two types of people in the church: those that would LIKE to
know more and those that WANT to know more.” Nicole Sanders
355) “Priesthood is the borrowing of God’s faith.” Steve Marquis
356) “Man is a creature able to rationalize anything.” Brother Barnes
357) “Calmness of mind is the beautiful jewel of wisdom.” ??? (during Brother
Barnes lesson)

-Socrates, Horace and Other Philosophers-

Philosophers-
358) “Don’t tell me how much you know. Tell me how much you’ve traveled
and I’ll tell you how much you know.” Socrates
359) “To know and not do is to not know.” Socrates
360) “A bad man is not permitted to injure a better than himself.” Socrates
361) “If we were all to bring our misfortunes into a common store, so that each
person should receive an equal share in the distribution, the majority would be glad to
take up their own and depart.” Socrates
362) “Without labor nothing prospers.” Sophocles
363) “A short saying often contains much wisdom.” Sophocles
364) “Children are an anchor that hold a mother to life.” Sophocles
365) “Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such
as thine affections, will be thy deeds; and such as thy deeds will be thy life.” Socrates
366) The Light of Integrity - “The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think
only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the full light if
day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what
you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny . . . . It is
the light that guides your way.” Heraclitus (Greek Poet, Philosopher)
367) “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing
itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
368) “Here is a rule to remember in the future, when anything tempts you to be
bitter: Not, "This is a misfortune," but, "To bear this worthily is good fortune.” Marcus
Aurelius
369) “Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.” Marcus
Aurelius
370) “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.” Anon
371) “The essentials for happiness are: Something to do, someone to love, and
something to hope for.” Anon (which is exactly what the Gospel gives you – something
to do, serve, someone to love, God, and something to hope for, life eternal with HIM.)
372) “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, under prosperous
conditions, may have remained dormant.” Horace
373) “In adversity, remember to keep an open mind.” Horace
374) “How ridiculous and what a stranger he who is surprised at anything which
happens in life.” Marcus Aurelius
375) “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not
only dream, but also believe.” Anatole (France)
376) “The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.”
Aristotle
377) “Excellence is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle
378) “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” Aristotle
379) “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” Aristotle
 380) “The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of
comfort.” Confucius
381) “It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”
Confucious
382) “If a man take no thought at what is distant, he will find sorrow near at
hand.” Confucius
383) “All good poets compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because
they are inspired and possessed...for not by art does the poet sing, but by power
divine.” Plato
384) “He whom love touches not walks in darkness.” Plato
385) “At the touch of love everyone become a poet.” Plato
386) “Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the
prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom
will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a
kingdom like Egypt...that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become
your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.” Helen
387) “Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass
quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their
power to harm us.” Voltaire
388) “To live without loving is not really to live.” Moliere
389) “We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I
don’t know.” W.H. Auden
390) “To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.” Euripides
391) “If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our
mistakes.” Euripides
392) “Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.” Plautus
393) “Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their
friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”
Aristophanes
394) “Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and
virtue than education without natural ability.” Cicero
395) “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the
others.” Cicero
396) “It is not only arrogant, but profligate, for a man to disregard the world's
opinion of himself.” Cicero
397) “If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in
virtue is progress in each of these; for to whatever point the perfection of anything
brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.” Epictetus
398) “It is not that which has happened that afflicts this man, for it does not
afflict another, but it is the opinion about this thing which afflicts the man.” Epictetus
399) “The soul of man is divided into three parts: intelligence and passion are
possessed by other animals as well, but reason by man alone. The soul is distinct
from life; it is immortal, since that from which it is detached is immortal. Reason is
immortal, all else mortal.” Pythagoras
400) “Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.” Seneca
 401) “Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the
reach or fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.” Seneca
402) “Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the
mind that receives them has the right attitudes.” Seneca
403) “When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the
doctrine does but confirm him in his faith.” Junius
404) “Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” Lucretius
405) “In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.” Solon

-Aesop-
Aesop-
406) “Example is the best precept.” Aesop
407) “Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.” Aesop
408) “Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” Aesop
409) “Little by little does the trick.” Aesop
410) “The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the
same scales.” Aesop
411) “Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.” Aesop
412) “Enemies promises were made to be broken.” Aesop
413) “There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's
day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time
to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his
own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and
said: ‘YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF
DISPICABLE ENEMIES.’” Aesop
414) “We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.” Aesop
415) “Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.” Aesop
416) “To a large degree, the value of our possessions depends on how we use
them.” Aesop
417) “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Aesop

-Friedrich Nietzsche-
Nietzsche-
418) “What does not destroy me makes me stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche
419) “Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.” Friedrich
Nietzsche
420) “For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you
are there, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for
yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! I know of no better
life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible . . . .” Friedrich
Nietzsche
421) “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche
422) “And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at
least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at
least one laugh.” Friedrich Nietzsche
423) “Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so
deeply that he had to invent laughter.” Friedrich Nietzsche
 424) “Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could
be.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
425) “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a
monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.”
Nietzsche
426) “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
regard those who think alike than those who think differently.” Nietzsche
427) “One will not go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average
ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.” Nietzsche
428) “In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no
longer necessary.” Nietzsche

429) “Real difficulties can be overcome; it is the imaginary ones that are
unconquerable.” Theodore N. Vail
430) “Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to
your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul; so only can you be true to
God.” Theodore Parker
431) “Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach
them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where
they lead.” Louisa May Alcott
432) “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not
reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow
them.” Louisa May Alcott
433) “The fight is famous not because it is a fight, but because it gives a
glimpse of the fighter’s character.” William J. Bennett
434) “Hard work is a good sign of a willingness to be responsible. People who
are doing things are usually getting things done for other people as well as
themselves.” William J. Bennett
435) “For God is Father-Mother, too! The world is my big home; The green
grass is the carpet, and the blue sky is the dome. On every side are pictures; The
fields are full of food; and all the things that God has made are beautiful and good. He
keeps me by His mighty power, He loves me as His child; His paths are bright with
happiness, His laws are just and mild. And all His children in this house, so wonderful
and fair, should love each other, learn His truth, and trust His love and care. I thank
thee, Father, for these homes, where we may dwell with thee, and cast our fear, and
share the joys thou givest full and free.” Henry Hallum Tweedy
436) “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” Robert Schuller
437) “A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.”
Booker T. Washington
438) “Self-discipline is doing something that needs to be done whether or not
you find it convenient. Self-discipline is usually motivated by our convictions, our
internal hopes, and our desires.” Robert L. Simpson
439) “Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” Michael
Pritchard

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/ Henry Ward Beecher-

Beecher-
 440) “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each
man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
441) “The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.” Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow
442) “The heart hath its own memory, like the mind, and in it are enshrined the
precious keepsakes.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
443) “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well,
and
doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
444) “Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to
dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
445) “Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God, and secret
passages, running deep beneath external nature, give their thoughts intercourse with
higher intelligence, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the laborers
on the surface do not even dream.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
446) “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of
you. Never excuse yourself.” Henry Ward Beecher
447) “Tears are often the telescope through which men see far into heaven.”
Henry Ward Beecher
448) “Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.”
Henry Ward Beecher
449) “If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it
become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.” Henry W. Beecher

“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
450) “Every calling is great when greatly pursued.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
451) “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our
hearts.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
452) “The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is
going.” David Starr Jordan
453) “Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative
endeavors.” W. Eugene Smith
454) “The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love,
passion.” Nadia Boulanger
455) “Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good
for wallowing in.” Katherine Mansfield, Forbes, 778
456) “The soul in this state is beyond mere sadness and melancholy. It has
removed itself from the rise and fall of feelings; the very root of its feelings in desire is
dead. … To be a man is to desire. The good man desires God and other things in
God. The sinful man desires things in the place of God, but he is still recognizably
human, inasmuch as he has known desire. The slothful man, however, is a dead man,
an arid waste. … His desire itself has dried up.” William R. May (“A Catalogue of
Sins,” as quoted in Christian Century, 24 Apr. 1996, 457)
 -William Shakespeare-
Shakespeare-
457) “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by
fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare (2 Timothy 1:7; D&C 6:34,36)
458) “The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.” William Shakespeare
459) “Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.” William Shakespeare
460) “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.” William
Shakespeare
461) “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” Shakespeare
462) “There was never yet the philosopher That could endure the toothache
patiently.” Shakespeare (from Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Scene 1)
463) “Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” Shakespeare
464) “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” Shakespeare
465) “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give
to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” Shakespeare
466) “The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream.”
Shakespeare
467) “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would
smell as sweet.” Shakespeare
468) “There is a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we might.”
Shakespeare (Hamlet)
469) “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts
never to heaven go.” Shakespeare
470) “If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and
which will not, speak then to me . . . .” Shakespeare (from Macbeth)
471) “Brevity is the soul of wit.” Shakespeare
472) “My age is as a lusty winter Frosty, but kindly.” Shakespeare
473) “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.” Shakespeare
474) “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” Shakespeare
475) “But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail.”
Shakespeare
476) “Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.” Shakespeare
477) “Let never the night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord
hath done.” William Shakespeare
478) “The miserable have no other medicine; but only hope” William
Shakespeare (Claudio, in Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 1)
479) “What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.” William
Shakespeare
480) “And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he
will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And
pay no worship to the garish sun.” William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
481) “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of
the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” William Shakespeare
482) “It is a wise father who knows his own child.” William Shakespeare
483) “It is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you
make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.” William
Shakespeare
 484) “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” William Shakespeare
(from Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3)
485) “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in
faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In
apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!”
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
486) “The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away,
men are but gilded loam or painted clay.” William Shakespeare
487) “Mend your speech a little, lest it may mar your fortunes.” Shakespeare,
King Lear

488) “To love the game beyond the prize.” Sir Henry Newbolt
489) “Some will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand
everything too soon.” Sir Thomas Pope Blount
490) “Scholars are men of peace; they bear no arms, but their tongues are
sharper than the sword; their pens carry further and give a louder report than thunder.
I had rather stand in the shock of a basilisk than in the fury of a merciless pen.” Sir
Thomas Browne
491) “Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs
within us.” Sir Francis Bacon
492) “I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” Jonathan Winters
493) “You can’t change the pass, you CAN change the future. When, you
make a decision, the first thing you can do is pray.” Irmao Sandra
494) “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” Dale
Carnegie
495) “A man has to live in a crowd but he doesn’t have to be a part of the
crowd.” Richard Evans
496) “Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.”
Richard Kline
497) “God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest.” J. G.
Holland
498) “There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be
true to the best one knows.” Frederick W. Farrar
499) “Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God
and angels know of us.” Thomas Paine
500) “All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and
awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for
their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author and founder of society.”
Edmund Burke
501) “Nobody makes a greater mistake than he did nothing because he could
do only a little.” Edmund Burke

-Helen Keller-
Keller-
502) “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” Helen Keller
 503) “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is
not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” Helen
Keller
504) “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so
long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller
505) “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller
506) “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller

-The Nashes-
507) “He who serves also stands and waits.” G&G Nash
508) “Maturity-Is the ability to go and do that what you ought not what you
want.” G&G Nash
509) “The Lord, my companion and then me.” G & G Nash
510) “You can disagree but you can’t be disagreeable.” G&G Nash
511) “When the going gets tough the tough get going.” G&G Nash
512) “Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life goes by with a song. But the
man worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes wrong.” Quoted by
Amy Bastian

-Abraham Lincoln-
Lincoln-
513) “Here was a man to hold against the world, A man to match the mountains
and the sea....And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down, As when a lordly cedar,
green with boughs, Goes down with a great shout upon the hills, And leaves a
lonesome place against the sky.” Edwin Markham (written about Abraham Lincoln but
compared to Joseph Smith)
514) “It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of
himself and claims kindred to the Great God who made him.” Abraham Lincoln
515) “Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the
way.” Abraham Lincoln
516) “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who
hustle.” Abraham Lincoln
517) “Always bear in mind your own resolution to success is more important
than any other one thing.” Abraham Lincoln
518) “Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that
assistance I cannot fail.” Abraham Lincoln
519) “Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln
520) “During a political debate an opponent of Abraham Lincoln called him ‘two-
faced’ Lincoln replied, ‘I leave it to my audience. If I had another face, do you think I'd
wear this one?’” About Abraham Lincoln
521) “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln
522) “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.” Abraham Lincoln
523) “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” Abraham
Lincoln
524) “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
Abraham Lincoln
525) “Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is
what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." Abraham Lincoln
526) “Life is uncertain, death is for sure, sin is the wound, and Christ is the
cure.” An old Civil War soldier wrote this in his journal

-The Presidents of the United States of America (in chronological order)-

527) “Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.” Chicago
government poster
528) “I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain
what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man.”
George Washington, 1789-1797
529) “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the
multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and
consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.” George
Washington
530) “Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in
America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided upon men. A
resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are,
and of right ought to be, free and independent states.” John Adams, 1797-1801
531) “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people
by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden
usurpation.” James Madison, 1809-1817
532) “The American continents... are henceforth not to be considered as
subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” James Monroe, 1817-1825
(Monroe Doctrine, 1823)
533) “The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of
immortality.” John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
534) “One man with courage makes a majority.” Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
535) “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.” Martin Van
Buren, 1837-1841
536) “The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the
governed.” William Henry Harrison, 1841 (Inaugural Address, 1841)
537) “The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person
in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.” John Tyler, 1841-1845 (Inaugural Address,
1841)
538) “We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent
alone have the right to decide their own destiny.” James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
(Message to Congress, 1845)
539) “For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever
dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full
extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the
Constitution.” Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850 (Message to Congress, 1849
 540) “In a body like Congress where there are more than one hundred talking
lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate, and
frequently the more trifling the subject the more animated and protracted the
discussion.” Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
541) “In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has
recently agitated the nation..., I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no
sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our
institutions . . . .” Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 (Inaugural Address, 1853)
542) “Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the
blood of its citizens shed in civil war.” James Buchanan, 1857-1861 (Message to
Congress, 1860)
543) “Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the
people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?” Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
(Inaugural Address, 1861)
544) “It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings
of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic . . . .” Andrew
Johnson, 1865-1869 (Message to Congress, 1868)
545) “Everyone has superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started
to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the things
intended was accomplished.” Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877
546) “He serves his party best who serves his country best.” Rutherford
Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881 (Inaugural Address, 1877)
547) “Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without
which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.” James Abram
Garfield, 1881 (Letter accepting Presidential nomination, 1880)
548) “No higher or more assuring proof could exist of the strength and
permanence of popular government than the fact that though the chosen of the people
be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or
strain . . . .” Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885 (Inaugural Address, 1881)
549) “Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public
trust.” Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889; 1893-1897 (Inaugural Address, 1885)
550) “Let those who would die for the flag on the field of battle give a better
proof of their patriotism and a higher glory to their country by promoting fraternity and
justice.” Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893 (Inaugural Address, 1889)
551) “There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that
which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of
national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's
safety and greatness.” Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
552) “We want no war of conquest... War should never be entered upon until
every agency of peace has failed.” William McKinley, 1897-1901 (Inaugural Address,
1897)
553) “It is well indeed for our land that we of this generation have learned to
think nationally.” Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 (Builders of the State)
554) “Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day affairs of life,
qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the
power of devotion to a lofty ideal.” Theodore Roosevelt
 555) “A government is for the benefit of all the people . . . .” William Howard
Taft, 1909-1913 (Veto of Arizona Enabling Act, 1911)
556) “Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.” Woodrow
Wilson, 1913-1921
557) “Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come
from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of
liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
Woodrow Wilson
558) “We mean to have less of Government in business and more business in
Government.” Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923 (Address to Congress, 1921)
559) “The business of America is business.” Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
560) “The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system
and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system . .
. .” Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933 (Rugged Individualism, 1928)
561) “The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries,
working together in a friendly, civilized society.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
(Four Freedoms Address, 1941)
562) “John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they
became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of
one of them was, ‘The country is safe. Jefferson still lives.’ And the last words of the
other was, ‘John Adams will see that things go forward.’” Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
563) “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” Harry S. Truman
564) “When you’ve done the best you can, you can’t do any better.” Harry S.
Truman
565) “The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical
progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope.” Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961
(Geneva Conference Address, 1955)
566) “In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted
the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger... The energy, the faith,
the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it,
and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-
1963 (Inaugural Address, 1961)
567) “Some men see things as they are and ask, “Why?” I dream of things that
never were and ask, “Why not?” Robert Kennedy
568) “If we fail now, then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned
in hardship: that democracy rests on faith; freedom asks more than it gives; and the
judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.” Lyndon Baines
Johnson, 1963-1969 (Inaugural Address, 1965)
569) “The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the
peace that comes ‘with healing in its wings;’ with compassion for those who have
suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for
all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.” Richard Milhous Nixon,
1969-1974 (Inaugural Address, 1969)
570) “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our
Constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws and mot of men.
Here, the people rule . . . .” Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977 (Inaugural Address,
1974)
571) “Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for
freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still
awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a
fresh faith in the old dream.” James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981 (Inaugural address,
1977)
572) “No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as
the will and moral courage of free men and women.” Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-
1989
573) “Freedom is where there is no monopoly on the truth.” Ronald Reagan
574) “‘One for the Gipper’ Someday when things are tough, maybe you can ask
the boys to go in there and win just one for the Gipper." Ronald Reagan – Portraying
football player George Gipp in the film “Knute Rockne, All American,” 1940
575) “‘Shining city on a hill' Let us resolve tonight that young Americans will
always ... find there a city of hope in a country that is free.... And let us resolve they
will say of our day and our generation, we did keep the faith with our God, that we did
act worthy of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a
hill." Ronald Reagan – Election Eve speech, Nov. 3, 1980
576) “‘We have piled deficit upon deficit’ For decades, we have piled deficit
upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary
convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous
social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by
borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then,
should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same
limitation?" Ronald Reagan – Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981
577) “‘Tear down this wall’ If you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here, to this gate.
Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” Ronald Reagan –
Speech at the Berlin Wall, June 12, 1987
578) “‘Grown beyond the consent of the governed’ We are a nation that has a
government — not the other way around. And this makes us special among the
nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the
people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of
having grown beyond the consent of the governed." Ronald Reagan – Inaugural
address, Jan. 20, 1981
579) “‘A special interest group that has been too long neglected’ We hear much
of special interest groups. Our concern must be for a special interest group that has
been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial
divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who
raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children,
keep our homes, and heal us when we are sick—professionals, industrialists,
shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, 'We the people,'
this breed called Americans." Ronald Reagan — Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981
 580) “‘I forgot to duck’ Honey, I forgot to duck." Ronald Reagan — 1981,
Reagan to his wife, as he recovered gunshot wounds after an assassination attempt
by John Hinckley on March 30, 1981
581) “‘A time of reckoning’ An almost unbroken 50 years of deficit spending has
finally brought us to a time of reckoning. We have come to a turning point, a moment
for hard decisions. I have asked the Cabinet and my staff a question, and now I put
the same question to all of you: If not us, who? And if not now, when? It must be done
by all of us going forward with a program aimed at reaching a balanced budget. We
can then begin reducing the national debt." Ronald Reagan — Second inaugural
address, Jan. 21, 1985
582) “‘Render nuclear weapons obsolete’ For decades, we and the Soviets
have lived under the threat of mutual assured destruction; if either resorted to the use
of nuclear weapons, the other could retaliate and destroy the one who had started it.
Is there either logic or morality in believing that if one side threatens to kill tens of
millions of our people, our only recourse is to threaten killing tens of millions of theirs?
I have approved a research program to find, if we can, a security shield that would
destroy nuclear missiles before they reach their target. It wouldn't kill people, it would
destroy weapons. It wouldn't militarize space, it would help demilitarize the arsenals of
Earth. It would render nuclear weapons obsolete.” Ronald Reagan — Second
inaugural address, Jan. 21, 1985
583) “‘Whatever else history may say’ Whatever else history may say about me
when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst
fears.... May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to
seek divine guidance and never lose your natural, God-given optimism.” Ronald
Reagan — Speech to Republican National Convention, Aug. 17, 1992
584) “‘Go ahead, make my day’ I have only one thing to say to the tax
increasers: Go ahead, make my day.” Ronald Reagan — March 13, 1985, in a speech
threatening to veto legislation raising taxes.
585) “‘You don't become president of the United States’ When people tell me I
became president on January 20, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't
become president of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an
institution called the presidency, which belongs to our people.” Ronald Reagan —
Address to the Republican national convention. Aug. 15, 1988
586) “America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral
principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of
the nation and gentler the face of the world.” George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
(Inaugural Address, 1989)
587) “The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and
the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift
a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this
cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not
fail.” George Walker Bush, 2001 to present (September 20, 2001)
588) Barbara Bush, wife of former United States president George Bush, once
said to the graduates of Wellesley College: “Whatever the era, whatever the times,
one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must
come first. You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you
must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends
not on what happens in the White House but on what happens inside your house.”

-Authors-
Authors-
589) “Father, where shall I work today? And my love flowed warm and free.
Then he pointed out a tiny spot and said, “Tend that for me.” I answered quickly, “Oh
no; not that! Why no one would ever see, no matter how well my work was done; Not
that little place for me.” And the word he spoke, it was not stern; He answered me
tenderly: “Ah, little one, search that heart of thine. Art thou working for them or for
me? Nazareth was a little place and so was Galilee.” Meade McGuire (recited
repeatedly to myself while climbing Mt. Rainer in July Summer of 2004 along with the
quotation by Elder Eyring concerning the atonement, personal, miraculous change
and not being the same person.)
590) “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be
seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then
embrace.” Alexander Pope
591) “It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles; the less
they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.” Alexander Pope
592) “To dazzle let the vain design; to raise the thought, and touch the heart, be
thine.” Alexander Pope
593) “Linger, O blessed Redeemer! Leave me alone no more, And with joy I
shall make the blest harbor, And rest on the blissful shore.” Gene Hemingway

-Edgar A. Guest
Guest-
st-
594) “Tis better to have tried in vain, Sincerely striving for a goal, Than to have
lived upon the plain an idle and timid soul. ‘Tis better to have fought and spent, your
courage, missing all applause, then to have lived in smug content and never ventured
for a cause. For he who tries and fails may be, the founder of a better day; though
never his the victory, from him shall others learn the way.” Edgar A. Guest
595) “She is fair to see and sweet, dainty from her head to feet, modest, as her
blushing shows, happy, as her smiles disclose, and the young man at her side
nervously attempts to hide, underneath a visage grim, that the fuss is bothering him.
Pause a moment, happy pair! This is not the station where romance ends, and
wooing stops and the charm from courtship drops; This is but the outward gate where
the souls of mortals mate, but the border of the land you must travel hand in hand.
You who come to marriage, bring all your tenderness, and cling steadfastly to all the
ways that have marked your wooing days. You are only starting our on life’s
roadways, hedged about thick with roses and with tares, sweet delights and bitter
cares. Heretofore you’ve only played at love’s game, young man and maid; only
known it at its best; now you’ll have to face its test. You must prove your love
worthwhile, something time cannot defile, something neither care nor pain can destroy
or mar or stain. You are now about to show whether love is real or no; yonder down
the lane of life you will find, as man and wife, sorrows, disappointments, doubt, hope
will always flicker out; but if rightly you are wed love will linger where you tread. There
are joys that you will share, joys to balance every care; arm in arm remain, and you
will not fear the storms that brew, if when you are sorest tried you face your trials, side
by side. Now your wooing days are done, and your loving years begun.” Edgar A.
Guest
596) “I believe in the world and its bigness and splendor: That most of the
hearts beating round us are tender; That days are but footsteps and years are but
miles, that lead us to beauty and singing and smiles: That roses that blossom and
toilers that plod, are filled with the glorious spirit of God. I believe in the purpose of
everything living: That taking is but the forerunner of giving; That strangers are friends
that we some day may meet; And not all the bitter can equal the sweet; That creeds
are but colors, and no man has said, that God loves the yellow rose more than the
red. I believe in the path that to-day I am treading, that I shall come safe through the
dangers I’m dreading; that even the scoffer shall turn from his ways, and some day be
won back to trust and to praise; that the leaf on the tree and the thing we call man, are
sharing alike in His infinite plan. I believe that all things that are living and breathing,
some richness of beauty to earth are bequeathing; that all that goes out of this world
leaves behind, some duty accomplished for mortals to find; that the humblest of
creatures our praise is deserving, for it, with the wisest, the Master is serving.” Edgar
A. Guest
597) “Life is a gift to be used every day, no to be smothered and hidden away;
it isn’t a thing to be stored in the chest, where you gather your keepsakes and treasure
your best; it isn’t a joy to be sipped now and then, and promptly put back in a dark
place again. Life is a gift that the humblest may boast of, and one that the humblest
may well make the most of. Get out and live it each hour of the day, wear and use it
as much as you may; don’t keep it in niches and corners and grooves, you’ll find that
in service its beauty improves.” Edgar A. Guest

-Don’t Stress Out-

Out-
598) “We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand
artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer
strengths of the nerves.” Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
599) “The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the
bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.” ???
600) “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.”
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601) “Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to
point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.” Douglas Pagels
602) “When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the
city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting
watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan’s Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the
noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural
rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds and bodies adds
to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.”
Steven Halpern
603) “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
Chinese Proverb
604) “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
Aesop, Fables
 605) “If you’re ever lying on a beach with 80 billion grains of sand beneath you,
700 thousand ocean waves before you, 60 million stars stretched out above you, and
you’re still not at all impressed, I want you to think about this: The light you see
reflecting from the stars is over one million years old. Wow. But then, just before you
start to feel like a mere blip in the gigantic scheme of things, please remember this:
Yes, you are small, but you’re also irreplaceable and invaluable, eternal and
miraculous. Those stars don’t have anything on you.” Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers
606) “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
607) “People will work for money, but they will die for something they believe in
deeply.” Mark Willes
608) “Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things.” Samuel
Johnson
609) “A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.” Samuel Goldwyn
610) “Those with out eternal perspective are those who lose sight of it.” Jay
Johnson
611) “We can’t wait for the storm to blow over. We’ve got to learn to work in the
rain.” Pete Silas (Phillips Petroleum)
612) “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The
hard part is doing it.” General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
613) “Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or
better.” John Updike
614) “People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.”
Earl Nightingale
615) “Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.” Earl Nightingale
616) “That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is
good is always beautiful.” Ninon de Lenclos
617) “Let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts
to be true.” Edward O. Wilson
618) “Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.” Thomas
Dewar

-Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau-

Thoreau-
619) “A gift without the giver is bare.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
620) “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
621) “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo
Emerson
622) “Every artist was first an amateur.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
623) “One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical,
decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.” Ralph
Waldo Emerson
624) “Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.”
Ralph Emerson
 625) “That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the
task changed, but our ability to perform it has increased.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
(President Grant loved this quote)
626) “Every great man is unique.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
627) “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
628) “Concentration is the secret of strength.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
629) “The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile
nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he
discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.” Ralph Waldo
Emerson
630) “Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-
power of the understanding.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
631) “When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon
the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
632) “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an
experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
633) “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and
the new.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
634) “To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the
affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal
of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a
bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
635) “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
636) “Every personal consideration that we allow, costs us heavenly state. We
sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
637) “Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with
universal wisdom.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
638) “Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material
force; that thoughts rule the world.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
639) “By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.” Ralph Waldo
Emerson
640) “Commerce is a game of skill which many people play, but which few play
well.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
641) “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is
where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau
642) “Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.” Henry David Thoreau
643) “Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.” Henry David Thoreau
644) “The heart is forever inexperienced.” Henry David Thoreau
645) “None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” Henry David
Thoreau
646) “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of
man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” Henry David Thoreau
 647) “Live the life you have imagined.” Henry David Thoreau
648) “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours.” Henry David Thoreau
649) “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of
man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.” Henry David Thoreau
650) “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is
where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau

-Mark Twain-
Twain-
651) “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the
safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark
Twain
652) “Wherever she was, there was paradise.” Mark Twain’s Adam about Eve
653) “Don’t let your schooling get in the way of your education.” Mark Twain
654) “The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.” Mark
Twain
655) “Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark
Twain
656) “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
657) “When in doubt, tell the truth.” Mark Twain
658) “My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.”
Mark Twain
659) “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of
them never happened.” Mark Twain
660) “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
society.” Mark Twain
661) “God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand
created.” Mark Twain
662) “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
wants to read.” Mark Twain
663) “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - and then success is
sure.” Mark Twain
664) “Behold, the fool saith 'Put not all thine eggs in the one basket' - which is
but a manner of saying, 'Scatter your money and your attention;' but the wise man
saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and - watch that basket.’” Mark Twain
665) “Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold
truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.”
Mark Twain
666) “Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food
fight it out inside.” Mark Twain
667) “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man
who cannot read them.” Mark Twain
 668) “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome
returns of conjectures out of such trifling investment of fact.” Mark Twain
669) “Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you
nothing. It was here first.” Mark Twain
670) “October is one of those dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The
others are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,
November, and December.” Mark Twain
671) “A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those
intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as
spiritual, and electrically prompt.” Mark Twain
672) “Buy land. They've stopped making it.” Mark Twain
673) “Wagner's music is better than it sounds.” Mark Twain
674) “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Mark Twain
675) “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must
have somebody to divide it with.” Mark Twain
676) “It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and
not deserve them.” Mark Twain
677) “Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker
will be sorry.” Mark Twain
678) “Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within
three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.” Mark Twain
679) “If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.” Mark
Twain
680) “The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
Mark Twain
681) “It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that
make horse races.” Mark Twain (from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar," 1894)
682) “Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.” Mark Twain
683) “Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.” Mark Twain
684) “It's not the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain
685) “No man or woman knows what perfect love is, until they have been
married a quarter of a century.” Mark Twain
686) “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” Mark Twain
687) “Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon.” Mark
Twain
688) “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.”
Mark Twain

689) “Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new
eyes.” Marcel Proust
690) “I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody
turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.” Groucho Marx
 691) “If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and
night for it, to give up your time, your peace, and your sleep for it...if all that you dream
and scheme is about it, and life seems useless and worthless it...if you gladly sweat
for it and fret for it and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it (perfect
love casteth away all fear)...if you simply go after that thing you want with all of your
capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity...if
neither cold, poverty, famine, nor gout, sickness nor pain, of body or brain, can keep
you away from the thing that you want...if dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
with the help of God, you will get it.” Les Brown (Live Your Dreams)
692) “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” Les
Brown
693) “Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.” Josh
Billings
694) “There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to
apply.” Josh Billings
695) “Giving is the secret of a healthy life...not necessarily money, but whatever
a man has of encouragement and sympathy and understanding.” John D. Rockefeller
696) “Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a
horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” Rossiter Worthington Raymond
697) “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift that is why
they call it the present.” Loretta Laroche

-Benjamin Franklin-
Franklin-
698) “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know
one’s self.” Benjamin Franklin
699) “We learn by chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad
appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable change, and
that of persevering in the search of resources.” Benjamin Franklin (The Game Is Not
Over: Just because you’re in check it doesn’t mean you’re going to lose.)
700) “A place for everything and everything in its place.” Benjamin Franklin
701) “Games lubricate the body and the mind.” Benjamin Franklin
702) “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is
made of.” Benjamin Franklin

-Thomas Jefferson-
Jefferson-
703) “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matter of principle stand
like a rock.” Thomas Jefferson
704) “It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand
by itself.” Thomas Jefferson
705) “When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.”
Thomas Jefferson
706) “What has destroyed liberty and the rights of men in every government
that has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating of all cares
and powers into one body.” Thomas Jefferson
707) “I cannot live without books.” Thomas Jefferson
 708) “No person will have the occasion to complain of the want of time, who
never loses any.” Thomas Jefferson
709) “Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”
Thomas Jefferson
710) “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Thomas Jefferson
711) “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Thomas
Jefferson
712) “I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of
tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson
713) “The most valuable of talents is that of never using two words when one
will do.” Thomas Jefferson
714) “Man is a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an
innate sense of justice.” Thomas Jefferson
715) “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the natural rights of
another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.” Thomas Jefferson
716) “Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we
should soon want bread.” Thomas Jefferson
717) “Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.”
Thomas Jefferson
718) “But though I am an old man, I am but a young gardener.” Thomas
Jefferson (letter to Charles Willson Peale, Aug. 20, 1811)
719) “I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose
happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.” Thomas Jefferson
720) “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain
cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” Thomas Jefferson
721) “I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.” Thomas
Jefferson
722) “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which
chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health,
occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” Thomas Jefferson
723) “It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which
give happiness.” Thomas Jefferson
724) “If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense
of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious
purchase.” Thomas Jefferson
725) “I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our
lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.” Thomas Jefferson
726) “The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises
walking is the best.” Thomas Jefferson
727) “I have never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in
philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friendship.” Thomas Jefferson
728) “. . . it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or
no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.” Thomas Jefferson (It is ok to
have differences and believe differently – just if you know the truth the share it with the
willing and open-hearted.)
729) “If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people
under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.” Thomas
Jefferson
730) “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government
without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a
moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those
papers and be capable of reading them.” Thomas Jefferson
731) “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man
and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the
legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate
with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that
their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between
Church and State.” Thomas Jefferson (letter to Connecticut Baptists)
732) “I am a strong believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have
of it.” Thomas Jefferson

-Albert Einstein-
Einstein-
733) “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the
mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one
tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy
curiosity.” Albert Einstein
734) “There are two ways to live life. One is that nothing is a miracle. The
other is that everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein
735) “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." Albert Einstein
736) “Not everything that counts can be counted . . . not everything that can be
counted counts.” Albert Einstein
737) “Concerns for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all
technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”
Albert Einstein
738) “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are
permitted to remain children all our lives.” Albert Einstein
739) “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination
is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the
world.” Albert Einstein
740) “I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion
is false. The hundredth time I am right.” Albert Einstein
741) “I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.” Albert Einstein
742) “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War
IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Albert Einstein
743) “The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits.”
Albert Einstein
 744) “There are two things infinite in the world: human stupidity and the
universe and I am not sure about the last one.” Albert Einstein
745) “Everyone is aware of the difficult and menacing situation in which human
society - shrunk into one community with a common fate - finds itself, but only a few
act accordingly. Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened, half
indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragicomedy that is being performed on the
international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.” Albert Einstein (from his
speech to the 2nd annual dinner of the Foreign Press Association to the General
Assembly and Security Council of the United Nations, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New
York, New York; November 11, 1947)
746) “I don't believe in mathematics.” Albert Einstein
747) “The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” Albert Einstein
748) “Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.” Albert
Einstein
749) “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.” Albert
Einstein
750) “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein
751) “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over
and over again, but expecting a different result.” Albert Einstein
752) “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and
knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.” Albert Einstein
753) “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our
humanity.” Albert Einstein
754) “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” Albert Einstein
755) “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can
no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists... this knowledge, this
feeling, is the centre of true religiousness.” Albert Einstein
756) “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein
757) “Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual
by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that
is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded
to the individual.” Albert Einstein (statement, England, September 15)
758) “What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To
answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in
putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures
as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.” Albert
Einstein (The World as I See It, 1934)
759) “Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the
work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that
you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your
children.” Albert Einstein
760) “We should take care not to make the intellect our God.” Albert Einstein
761) “You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.” Neils Bohr to Albert
Einstein
 -Men of the 18th Century
Century-
ury-
762) “Relentlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.”
Thomas Alva Edison
763) “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls
and looks like work.” Thomas Alva Edison
764) “Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.” Thomas Alva
Edison
765) “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish.” John Quincy Adams
766) “Real learning comes not so much from reasonable thinking, but from
those illuminating moments that permanently warp the mind.” Henry Adams
767) “He well knows what snares are spread about his path . . . He is traduced
and abused for his supposed motives.” (?)
768) “Break free from the walls around you, when you take the risk of living, life
brings immeasurable rewards.” Benjamin Disreali (1804-81)
769) “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity
when it comes.” Benjamin Disreali (1804-81)
770) “Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of
ranges.” Thomas Wentworth Higginson
771) “Discipline and focused awareness ... contribute to the act of creation.”
John Poppy

772) “You’ve got to say, “I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly
enough I can have it.” It’s called perseverance.” Lee J. Iacocca
773) “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” Earl
Nightingale
774) “As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” William Hazlitt
775) “If I see further it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants.” Sir Issac
Newton
776) “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny. . . .’” Issac Asimov

-Michelangelo-
Michelangelo-
777) “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and
falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” Michelangelo
Buonarroti
778) “Purity is ever green.” (never grows old, never dies) Michelangelo
779) “Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception
resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are
come...My eyes longing for beautiful things together with my soul longing for salvation
have no other power to ascend to heaven than the contemplation of beautiful things.”
Michelangelo
780) “If we have been pleased with life then we should not be displeased with
death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.” Michelangelo
 781) “What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the
foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which
it is clothed?” Michelangelo
782) “Genius is eternal patience.” Michelangelo
783) “Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
Michelangelo
784) “Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.” Michelangelo
785) “It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.” Michelangelo
786) “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” Michelangelo

-Nelson Mandela-
Mandela-
787) “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens
us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t
serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people
won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is
within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are
liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Nelson
Mandela
788) “As we let our light shine, we give permission for others to let their light so
shine.” Nelson Mandela
789) “It’s not who we are afraid of, it’s what we will become.” Nelson Mandela

-Ancient Proverbs-
Proverbs-
790) “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” Old Chinese
Proverb
791) “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person
doing it.” Chinese proverb
792) “Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll
understand.” Chinese Proverb
793) “When you hear something, you will forget it. When you see something,
you will remember it. But not until you do something, will you understand it.” Chinese
Proverb
794) “Man who waits with open mouth on side of hill for roast duck, wait for long
time.” Chinese Proverb
795) “This one makes a net; This one stands and wishes. Would you like to
bet, which one gets the fishes?” Chinese Rhyme, in Forbes, 919
796) “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” Japanese Proverb
797) “Love rules without rules.” (Amore regge senza legge.) Italian proverb
798) “He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.” Italian
Proverb
799) “By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.” Italian Proverb
800) “The comforter’s head never aches.” Italian Proverb
 801) “He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.”
Arabian Proverb
802) “Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate
less, love more; and all good things are yours.” Swedish Proverb
803) “Hold a true friend with both hands.” Nigerian Proverb
804) “A man is not where he lives but where he loves.” Latin Proverb
805) “The tone makes the music.” Old German Proverb
806) “How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.” Spanish
Proverb
807) “Tell me who you love, and I'll tell you who you are.” Creole proverb
808) “A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.” English Proverb
809) “Some dream of big things, others wake up and do them.” Old Saying
(Proverbs 20:13)
810) “The heart that loves is always young.” Greek Proverb
811) “Live to learn and you will learn to live.” Portuguese Proverb
812) “It takes 64 muscles of the face to make a frown, and only thirteen to
make a smile. Why work overtime?” Gems of Thought (3 Nephi 19:25)
813) “Make of yourself an honest man, and there will be one rascal fewer in the
world.” Wise Man
814) “Though a man be learned, if he does not apply his knowledge, he
resembles the blind man, who, lamp in hand, cannot see the road.” Tibetan saying
815) “The world is a chain, one link in another.” Maltese Proverb
816) “To change customs is a difficult thing.” Lebanese Proverb
817) “Half the world knows not how the other half lives.” English Proverb
818) “Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it.” Spanish
Proverb
819) “Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and
then choose that way with all his strength.” Hasadic saying

820) “If you don’t laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a lot older (younger?)
than you want it to be.” Sam from Garden State
821) “When you do things with all your soul, it is hard to fall.” Ignacio Alvarado
R.
822) “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can
become it.” William Arthur Ward
823) “Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully.
Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.” William A. Ward
824) “In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline
ourselves.” Bernard Baruch
825) “The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you
can become.” Harold Taylor
826) “All men who achieved great things have been great dreamers.” Orison
Swett Marden
827) “In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the
greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the
easiest.” Henry Miller
 828) “The task of the leader is to get people from where they are to where they
have not been.” Henry Kissenger
829) “This may shock you, but I believe the single most significant decision I
can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my
past, my education, my bankroll, my successes, my failures, fame or pain, what other
people think of me or say about me, my circumstances or my position. Attitude is that
“single string” that keeps me going or hinders my progress. It alone fuels my fire or
assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there’s no barrier too high, no valley
too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.” Charles Swindoll
830) “People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things
would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant
ship coming in.” Charles R. Swindoll
831) “There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest
potential.” Rusty Berkus
832) “Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of
educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent.” Calvin Coolidge
833) “All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone.”
Greg Arnold
834) “To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is
a race with no finish line.” David T. Kearns
835) Affirmation for Today “Today I will live through the next 24 hours and not
try to tackle all of life’s problems at once. Today I will improve myself, body, mind and
spirit. Today I will refuse to spend time worrying about what might happen it....Today I
will not imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different. I will
do my best with what material I have. Today I will find the grace to let go if
resentments of others and self-condemnation over past mistakes. Today I will not try
to change, or improve, anybody but me. Today I will act towards others as though this
will be my last day on earth. Today I will be unafraid. I will enjoy what is beautiful,
and I will believe that as I give to the world, the world will give to me. Whether these
are the best of times or the worst of times, theses are the only times we’ve got. Live
each other fully and you will look back on a life that made a difference.” Steve Goodier
836) “In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough.”
Pierre Marivaux

-BYU Religion Professors-

Professors-
837) “Obedience to truth gives one power.” Brother Manscill
838) “Being in outer darkness is like being a POW for eternity.” Brother Manscill
839) “What’s more important than truths, are relationships. We take what we
learn and apply it to people.” Brother Manscill
840) “You can’t escape a celestial relationship.” Brother Manscill
841) “When we love people we see them through filters.” Brother Fawcett
842) “Utterances may die but meaning never does.” Brother Steinagel
 -Sports Personal-
Personal-
843) “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something
they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-
minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to the skill and the will. But
the will must be stronger than the skill.” Muhammad Ali
844) “I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.”
Lance Armstrong
845) “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s
determination.” Tommy Lasorda
846) “If you see a man on top of a mountain, you can be rest assured that he
did not fall to get there.” An anonymous basketball coach
847) “There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test;
total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.” Pat Riley
848) “How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what
you become after the game, whether you are a winner or not.” Lou Holtz
849) “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you
do; Attitude determines how well you do it.” Lou Holtz
850) “Physically fit people are more intellectually inclined, emotionally stable,
composed, self-confident, easy-going and relaxed.” A. H. Ismail (Purdue University)
851) “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the
same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as
that!” Lewis Carroll
852) “The vision of a champion is someone bent over, drenched in sweat, to a
point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.” Anson Dorrance, collegiate
women's soccer coach
853) “Success is aiming for the stars, because if you fall short, you are going to
land on the moon, and there are not too many people on the moon now, are there?”
Amy Van Dyken, Olympic swimming gold medalist
854) “You've always got to be aware of why you don't win, otherwise you'll keep
losing. Every mistake is a learning experience and, hopefully, you won't make the
same mistake again.” Layne Beachley, world champion surfer
855) “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” Michael
Jordan

-Arthur Ashe-
Ashe-
856) “If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have
said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.” Arthur Ashe
857) “Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if
you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental
edge that results in victory.” Arthur Ashe
858) “You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important
than winning or losing.” Arthur Ashe
859) “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes
a life. Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the
fear of losing; you keep challenging it.” Arthur Ashe
 860) “Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more
important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.” Arthur Ashe

-Henry Ford-
Ford-
861) “You can’t build a reputation on what you are GOING to do.” Henry Ford
862) “Life is a series of experience, each of which makes us bigger even
though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we
must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching
onward.” Henry Ford
863) “Whether you think you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” Henry
Ford
864) “Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger . . . .
Henry Ford
865) “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises,
is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” Henry Ford

-Business Personal-
Personal-
866) “One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to
love, and to long life.” Alexander A. Bogomoletz
867) “Television is not like the weather. He who complains about it can do
something about it. The trouble is, he usually doesn’t.” Telford Taylor
868) “The real secret of success is enthusiasm.” Walter Chrysler
869) “Every successful business in the world is in existence because its
founder recognized in a problem or need an opportunity to be of service to others.
Every problem or need in your life is in reality an opportunity to call forth inner
resources of wisdom, love, strength, and ability.” J. Sig Paulson
870) “Indeed, if we were not paid at all, Charlie and I would be delighted with
the cushy jobs we hold. At bottom, we subscribe to Ronald Reagan's creed: ‘It's
probably true that hard work never killed anyone, but I figure why take the chance.’”
Warren Buffet
871) “The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple
and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from
the old . . . .” John M. Keynes
872) “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is
largely a matter of conscious choice.” Jim Collins (quotation from “Good to Great”)
873) “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot
lose.” Jim Elliot
874) “Economics is the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.” Alfred
Marshall
875) “History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually
encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they
refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” B.C. Forbes
876) “Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish, or teach how to
fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.” Bill Drayton
(Ashoka)
 877) “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and
superstition.” Adam Smith
878) “The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not
likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.” Charles W. Schwab
879) “A child is the ultimate startup, and I have three. This makes me rich.” Guy
Kawasaki
880) “Saying you are willing to do something does not mean that you will do it.”
Guy Kawasaki
881) “Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in
Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the
students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: ‘Some day
you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor
you are.’” Halford E. Luccock

-Consulting Quotes-
Quotes-
882) “Old age isn’t so bad (when you consider the alternative).” Maurice
Chevalier
883) “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened
of old ones.” John Cage
884) “The only real training for leadership is leadership.” Anthony Jay
885) “If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.” Mo Udall
886) “Nothing in life is free. (Unless you’re a consultant.)” ???
887) “A specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.” Martin H. Fisher
888) “The difference between a job and a career is the difference between 40
and 60 hours a week.” Robert Frost
889) “We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” Rutherford D.
Rogers
890) “Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain
dealing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

-Teams-
Teams-
891) “When we come to the end of our light and must move into the dark of the
unknown, we must believe we will find something solid on which to stand or that we
will understand how to fly.” ???
892) “Leaders have to get people into an "adult" mode of operation so they will
make rational and objective choices. These move the company forward, not sideways.
After all is said and done, that's the way Square Wheels move best” Ed Westerdahl
893) “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated
through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this
expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium
and will be lost.” Martha Graham
894) “Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others
belong to us as well” Voltaire
895) “As soon as everyone is on the bandwagon with one idea, a leader should
be working on the next one” Roger Enrico, Pepsico
 896) "It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they
don't work that causes all their troubles.” Wm. J. H. Boetcker
897) “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings” William Blake
898) “Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.” Tom Stoppard
899) “Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is
bearing me across the sky.” Ojibwa Saying
900) “If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his
eyes and walk in the dark” St. John of the Cross
901) "Holle vaten klinken het hardst" - "Empty (hollow) barrels sound the
loudest." a Dutch expression: “I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who
has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use.”
Galileo in retort to his critics including the Church
902) Eugene Taurman wrote: "Deprived of information one cannot assume
responsibility, but, given the information one cannot avoid responsibility." Smitty The
Janitor
903) “... teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern
organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can
learn, the organization cannot learn.” Peter M. Senge, The Fifth Discipline
904) “Most potential teams can become real teams, but not without taking risks
involving conflict, trust, interdependence, and hard work. For example, a common
team purpose, set of performance goals, and approach rarely arise without conflict.
Indeed, quite the contrary -- the most successful teams recognize their members'
conflicting views and experiences as a source of strength. Similarly, mutual
accountability requires trust and interdependence, which usually do not grow without
risk taking. And, finally, most potential teams include members who must develop the
skills needed by the team after they have joined the team itself. This, too, implies risks
and hard work for everyone on the team.” “in "The Wisdom Of Teams," by Jon R.
Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith
905) "We trained hard...but it seemed that every time we were beginning to
form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to
meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating
the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demorilization."
Petronius Arriter, 210 B.C.
906) “It's important to talk to people in their own language. If you do it well,
they'll say, ‘God, he said exactly what I was thinking.’ And when they begin to respect
you, they'll follow you to the death. The reason they're following you is not because
you're providing some mysterious leadership. It's because you're following them.” Lee
Iacocca
907) “Group desire is different than individual desire. With individual desire, it's
up to you to feed the fire. With group desire, you get all kinds of people rolling logs on
from every direction.” Vince Pfaff

-Performance-
Performance-
908) “Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just
gargle.” adapted by Grant M. Bright
 909) “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening
the axe.” Abraham Lincoln
910) “Go to the people, Learn from them, Love them, Start with what they
know, Build on what they have, But of the best leaders, When their task is
accomplished, Their work is done, The people will remark: ‘We have done it
ourselves.’” 2000 Year Old Chinese Poem
911) “Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
912) “It is not necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are
two other possibilities: one is paper work and the other is nostalgia” Frank Zappa
913) “If something is not worth doing at all, it is not worth doing well.” Warren
Buffett
914) “Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.” William Faulkner
915) “People may doubt what you say, but they always believe what you do.”
Unknown
916) “The body travels more easily than the mind, and until we have limbered
up our imagination we continue to think as though we had stayed home. We have not
really budged a step until we take residence in someone else's point of view.” John
Erskine The Complete Life, Chapter 8, Foreigners
917) “A sale is not something you pursue; it's what happens to you while you
are immersed in serving your customer.” Unknown
918) “People who never do more than they get paid for, never get paid for
anything more than they do.” Kemmons Wilson, Founder, Holiday Inns
919) “A frustrated manager complained that everytime he provided training, the
now highly skilled employee was snatched up by a competitor: ‘The only thing worse
than training people and having them leave is not training them and having them
stay.’” attributed to Zig Ziglar
920) “It wasn't until 1865 that the Matterhorn was first climbed. Four men in the
party died during the descent. It took 30 years and 20 deaths before Everest was first
successfullly climbed and it was generally considered ‘Impossible without oxygen.’ In
1975, 2 men made it. Mount Blanc used to take 3 days to climb. Last year, a climber
did it in 7 hours. Now, athletes actually have a race to the top of Matterhorn, where
they start at 2000 feet and run to the peak, up 35 degree inclines at a rate of 1500
meters an hour. It's about beliefs.” ???

-Knowledge-
Knowledge-
921) “Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some
acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being
possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a
desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being
made, it comes to the same thing.” Confucius (in The Doctrine of the Mean)
922) “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that
it has never tried to contact us.” Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
923) “Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that
happen to us happen because we really deserve them?” J.M. Straczynski
 924) “I always remember an epitaph in the cemetery at Tombstone, AZ. It says:
"Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is the greatest epitaph a
man can have - when he gives everything that is in him to the job he has before him.
That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.” Harry S. Truman

925) “It should be born in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange,
more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating
changes in a state's constitution (read organization). The innovator makes enemies of
all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is
forthcoming from those who would propser uinder the new. Their support is lukewarm
partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the existing laws on their side, and
partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless
they have tested them by experience. In consequence, whenever those who oppose
changes can do so, they attack vigorously, and the defense made by the others is only
lukewarm so both the innovator and his friends are endangered together.” Niccolo
Machiavelli The Prince
926) “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw
927) “The illiterate of the future are *not* those who cannot read or write. They
are those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler
928) “Never doubt that a small, committed group of people can change the
world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
929) “If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
Giuseppe di Lamedosa
930) “Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.” Michael
Pritchard
931) “The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
932) “If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of
prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.” old Chinese
proverb
933) “Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by
itself.” Zen Poem
934) “Unless we change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are
headed.” (Old Chinese Proverb)
935) “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you
have.” (Emile Charter)
936) “Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been
attained, progress stops." Thomas J. Watson Jr., computer executive

937) “Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what
you're going to be thinking tomorrow.” Glen Beaman
938) “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they
can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”
Norman Vincent Peale
 939) “Destiny is no matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to
be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.” William Jennings Bryan
940) “Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.” William Faulkner
941) “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter
his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” William James (1842-1910)
942) “Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.” Jean-
Jacques Rosseau
943) “Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that
determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you
before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think
you are.” Norman Vincent Peale.
944) Following their defeat at the battle of Shiloh, the shattered Confederate
army fled for their lives in a panicked rout. General A.S. Johnston, desperately trying
to rally his troops to stand and fight, grabbed a passing soldier and demanded,
“Private why are you running?” The Private hurriedly replied, “General, I’m running
‘cause I can’t fly!”

-Contemporary Women and Women of Antiquity-

Antiquity-
945) “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice
of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship.
Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere
usefulness achieved.” Willa A. Foster
946) “Where there is great love there are always miracles.” Willa Cather
947) “My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She
said that “achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and
done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice, too,
but not as important or satisfying.” Always aim for achievement and forget about
success.” Helen Hayes
948) “Positive attitudes-optimism, high self-esteem, an outgoing nature,
joyousness, and the ability to cope with stress-may be the most important bases for
continued good health.” Helen Hayes
949) “It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” Sally
Kempton
950) “Motherhood is the one profession that a dedicated and educated adult
can practice for a decade and still not be considered an expert.” Jaroldeen Edwards
951) “Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I
was aware that it is not enough to say, “I am doing no harm.” I ought to be testing
myself daily, and asking myself what I am really achieving.” Margot Asquith
952) “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it
seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is
just the place and the time that the tide will turn.” Harriet Beecher Stowe
953) “Two human loves make one divine.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 954) “Love is a force that connects us to every strand of the universe, an
unconditional state that characterizes human nature, a form of knowledge that is
always there for us if only we can open ourselves to it.” Emily H. Sell
955) “We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when
some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine.” Gloria Gaither
956) “We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the
reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” Gloria Gaither
957) “We should all constantly evaluate our progress. To live righteous lives
and accomplish the purpose of our creation, we must constantly review the past,
determine our present status, and set goals for the future. Without this process there
is little chance of reaching one’s objectives.” O. Leslie Stone
958) “Many of our problems are blessings in disguise.” O. Leslie Stone
959) “. . . in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at
heart.” Anne Frank
960) “God has a plan for each of us and so we see God’s ways are not always
our ways but His ways are always best.” Katherine McCafferty
961) “A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great
idea that inspires no one.” Mary Kay Ash
962) “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a
vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie

-Ayn Rqnd-
Rqnd-
963) “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless
swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the
hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never
been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you
desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.” Ayn Rand
964) “No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.”
Ayn Rand
965) “Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.” Ayn Rand
966) “A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to
the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who
share his racial origin.” Ayn Rand
967) “We cannot fight against anything, unless we fight for something -- and
what we must fight for is the supremacy of reason, and a view of man as a rational
being.” Ayn Rand
968) “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had
decided not to see.” Ayn Rand
969) “Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar
system, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.” Ayn Rand
970) “There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is
wrong, but the middle is always evil.” Ayn Rand
971) “Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new
roads armed with nothing but their own vision.” Ayn Rand
 972) “The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights
can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take
precedence over the interests and rights of others.” Ayn Rand
973) “America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common
good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal
interests and the making of their own private fortunes.” Ayn Rand (taken from the
invisible-hand economic theory)
974) “The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.” Ayn Rand
975) “Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot
be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on
private individuals - that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only
the conduct of the government - that it is not a charter for government power, but a
charter of the citizens' protection against the government.” Ayn Rand
976) “Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational
whims. Just as a man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a
parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the
moment - so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any
delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the
range of the moment not to escape the consequences.” Ayn Rand
977) “I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour
added to my life.” Ayn Rand
978) “A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and
does not care to discover its cause.” Ayn Rand
979) “Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the
achievement of one's values.” Ayn Rand
980) “The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind
obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was
specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality
over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth
of science, of individualism, of freedom.” Ayn Rand
981) “In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the
'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that
period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the
rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to
remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.” Ayn Rand
982) “Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's
metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which
represent his fundamental view of man's nature.” Ayn Rand

-The Roosevelts-
Roosevelts-
983) “There are two kinds of success. One is the very rare kind that comes to
the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is
genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That
person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with
their fellows, but who has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary
degree.” Theodore Roosevelt
984) “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
985) “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” F.D. Roosevelt
986) “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

987) “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal
with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.” John Foster Dulles

-Winston Churchill-
Churchill-
988) “It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can
see.” Winston Churchill
989) “The cost of the war both of human life and resources was of such
magnitude you cannot distinguish the difference between the victorious and the
defeated.” Winston Churchill
990) “Never give in – never. Never. Never. Never . . . .” Winston Churchill
991) “The optimist sees every opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees
danger in every opportunity.” Winston Churchill
992) “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.”
Winston Churchill
993) “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.” Winston
Churchill
994) “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my
wife to marry me.” Winston Churchill
995) “It is a mistake to try and look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only
be grasped one link at a time.” Winston Churchill
996) “Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large
or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to
force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” Winston
Churchill
997) “Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain
amount of foolish speech.” Winston Churchill
998) “There is a great deal of difference between being responsible for an order
which may lose valuable ships and expressing an opinion without such responsibility.”
Winston Churchill

-Performers/Hollywood (actors)-
(actors)-
999) “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
1000) “I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.” George Eliot
1001) “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.”
George Eliot
1002) “What a greater thing is there for two human souls then to feel that they
are joined for life – to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all
sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent
unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting.” George Eliot
 1003) “Whenever I hear, ‘It can’t be done,’ I know I’m close to success.” Michael
Flatley
1004) “The higher up you go, the more mistakes you’re allowed. Right at the top,
if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.” Fred Astaire
1005) “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” Susan J. Bissonette
1006) “All men should try to learn before they die what they are running from,
and to, and why.” James Thurber
1007) “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers
1008) “Life is like an ice cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.”
Charlie Brown
1009) “If you choose passion over principle you lose every time.” Karate Kid II
1010) “Keep walking and keep smiling.” Tiny Tim
1011) “If we can conquer outer space we should be able to conquer inner space
too.” Christopher Reed
1012) “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please
everyone.” Bill Cosby
1013) “For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is
unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.” Bill Cosby
1014) “People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.” Bob Hope
1015) “90% of success is being there.” Woody Allen
1016) “For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my
lips you kissed, but my soul.” Judy Garland
1017) “If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.” Los Angeles
Times
1018) “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenary you miss by going too
fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” Eddie Cantor (US
comedian & singer – 1892-1964)
1019) “Everybody's got a laughin' place, trouble is most folks won't take the time
to find it. And where it is for one, mightn't be for another." Brer Rabbit
1020) “Love is but the heart's immortal thirst to be completely known and all
forgiven.” Henry Van Dyke
1021) “Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the
outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure.
Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually
leads to success.” Brian Adams

-Matthew Tyson Kotter-

Kotter-
1022) “Our perception of eternity is solely based on our perception of reality.”
Mattski
1023) “Soon the traps and snares of the adversary will be but molten steel in the
fire of the Almighty.” Mattski
1024) “Agency is the proposition of opposition.” Mattski
1025) “Endless battles beget new beginnings.” Mattski
1026) “Pride forces prayer to become a casual chat.” Mattski
1027) “Salvation saturates purposeful living.” Mattski
 1028) “Christ engraved us on His hands and we must allow Him to engrave His
law in our hearts.” Mattski
1029) “The atonement further annunciates our own nothingness.” Mattski (but
solidifies our potential for eternal success)
1030) “Depression depicts Satan’s victory.” Mattski
1031) “Obedience is the natural man’s worst nemesis.” Mattski
1032) “Covenants clarify the Lord’s love.” Mattski
1033) “Laziness lingers while Discipleship does.” Mattski
1034) “Immorality emanates from idleness.” Mattski
1035) “Disillusionment, defeat, despair, disobedience, dishonesty, depression
and denial are nothing but dreadful aftertastes of a natural man’s seven course meal.”
Mattski
1036) “Ignorance turns stepping stones into stumbling blocks.” Mattski
1037) “Life’s meaning is found in purposeful pleading.” Mattski
1038) “Sadly we judge faster than our own hearts beat.” Mattski (Sadly, we pass
judgement...)
1039) “Temptation torturously tests truth’s triumph.” Mattski
1040) “Pride is the cyclical saturation of carnality.” Mattski
1041) “If you want to see the light at the end of the tunnel there needs to be a
light behind you first.” Mattski

-The Dances-
Dances-
1042) “Don’t let evil thoughts come into your bay and float around...don’t harbor
such thoughts...ever.” Jeff Dance
1043) “My parents were my missionaries.” Jeff Dance
1044) “Love must penetrate every sense.” Jeff Dance
1045) “The IQ is not as important as the ‘I will’.” Tom Dance
1046) “When you are kicked in the rear, you know you’re in front.” Tom Dance
1047) “The best insurance is being a member of the Church.” Dave Dance
1048) “There is nothing wrong with raw as long as it gets cooked.” Melanie
Dance
1049) “In life comes great disappointments, but it is in how you handle them that
defines your true character.” Amanda Dance
1050) “The day we think we are perfect is the time when we are actually most
imperfect.” Amanda Dance
1051) “Laughing is the cure for heartache.” Emily Dance
1052) “See the need, DO THE DEED.” My Momma Dance
1053) “The veil covers your mind not your heart.” Mom Dance
1054) “Where would you have been at the time of the Savior’s crucifixion? What
would you be doing- helping or taunting?” My Papa Dance
1055) “Remember . . . it’s all about peace, love and temple marriage.” Mama
Thuelson

-The Clydes-
Clydes-
1056) “It’s the most wonderful place this side of heaven...and I don’t remember
heaven.” Grandpa Clyde
 1057) “You don’t really know who you are until you know where you came from.”
Grandpa Clyde
1058) “To go into the highest degree it takes two...you cannot do it alone.”
Grandpa Clyde
1059) “No life that is righteously lived will be forgotten.” Grandpa Clyde
1060) “You can’t allow other priorities to overshadow your roots and black out
the sun.” Amanda Hadley

1061) “O, one might reach heroic heights by one strong burst of power. He
might endure the whitest lights of heaven for an hour;-. But harder is the daily drag, to
smile at trials which fret and fag, and not to murmur –nor to lag. The test of greatness
is the way one meets the eternal Everyday.” Edmund Vance Cooke, Impertinent
Poems

-Russian
Russian Authors and Philosophers-
Philosophers-
1062) “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” Leo Tolstoy
1063) “What, then, was the force that moved the nations? ...Power. What then is
power? Power is the sum total of will as expressed as one person.” Leo Tolstoy
1064) “The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.” Leo
Nikolaevich Tolstoy
1065) “ . . . If I were told that what I shall write will be read in twenty years by the
children of today and that they will weep and smile over it and will fall in love with life, I
would devote all my life and all my strengths to it.” Leo Tolstoy
1066) “Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does
not destroy?” Leo Tolstoy
1067) “I sought in all the sciences but, far from finding what I wanted, became
convinced that all who like myself had sought in knowledge for the meaning of life had
found nothing.” Leo Tolstoy (“Confession”)
1068) “He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in
style.” Leo Tolstoy
1069) “Boredom: the desire for desires.” Leo Tolstoy
1070) “Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.” Leo
Tolstoy
1071) “There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important
time because it is the only time that we have any power.” Leo Tolstoy
1072) “Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is
incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its
wars.” Leo Tolstoy
1073) “Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” Leo
Tolstoy
1074) “In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to
events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself.
Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical
sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from
eternity.” Leo Tolstoy
 1075) “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Leo Tolstoy
1076) “All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way.” Leo Tolstoy
1077) “We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” Leo Tolstoy
1078) “So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so
painfully as to find some one to worship.” Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
1079) “Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all
other organisms.” Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
1080) “If it were not for Christ's Church, indeed there would be no restraint on
the criminal in his evildoing, and no punishment for it later, real punishment, that is,
not a mechanical one such as has just been mentioned, which only chafes the heart in
most cases, but a real punishment, the only real, the only frightening and appeasing
punishment, which lies in the acknowledgement of one's own conscience.”
Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
1081) “I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a
distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as
ridiculous as ever.” Dostoevsky (Dream of a Ridiculous Man)
1082) “Is there suffering on this new earth? On our earth we can truly love only
with suffering and through suffering! We know not how to love otherwise. We know no
other love. I want suffering in order to love.” Dostoevsky (Dream of a Ridiculous Man)
1083) “...to be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness
disease.” Dostoevsky (Notes from the Underground)
1084) “When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever
acted in accordance with his own interests?” Dostoevsky (Notes from the
Underground)
1085) “For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power
of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?” Dostoevsky (Notes from the Underground)
1086) “My debauchery I undertook solitarily, by night, covertly, fearfully, filthily,
with a shame that would not abandon me... I was then already bearing the
underground in my soul.” Dostoevsky (Notes from the Underground)
1087) “Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone,
but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends,
but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is
even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such
things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater
the number of such things in his mind.” Dostoevsky (Notes from the Underground)
1088) “Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of
makingmen happy in the end......but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to
death only one tiny creature...And to found that edifice on its unavenged tears: would
you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell me the truth!”
Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
1089) “Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to
his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or
anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not
respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to
passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amuse himself, and in his
vices reaches complete beastiality, and it all comes from lying continually to others
and to himself. A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense. It sometimes
feels very good to take offense, doesn't it? And surely he knows that no one has
offended him, and that he himself has invented the offense and told lies just for the
beauty of it, that he has exaggerated for the sake of effect, that he has picked on a
word and made a mountain out of a pea- he knows all of that, and still he is the first to
take offense, he likes feeling offended, it gives him great pleasure, and thus he
reaches the point of real hostility... Do get up from your knees and sit down, I beg you,
these posturings are false, too.” Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
1090) “Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in
another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even
there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in
that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark
depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a
hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are to blame for them.”
Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
1091) “But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with
happiness, in the exact same way and in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs
unhappiness!” Dostoevsky (The Possessed or Demons)
1092) “To love a person means to see him as God intended him to be.” Fyodor
Dostoevsky
1093) “There is no one unhappier than you.” Dostoevsky
1094) “The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a
civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein
rests the whole of our faith.” Fyodor Dostoevski
1095) “It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my
devourer?” Fyodor Dostoevski
1096) “A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.” Fyodor Dostoevski
1097) “The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live
for.” Fyodor Dostoevski
1098) “Realists do not fear the results of their study.” Fyodor Dostoevski
1099) “It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of
nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.” Fyodor Dostoevski
1100) “To live without Hope is to Cease to live.” Fyodor Dostoevski
1101) “If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say
with confidence that he is a good man.” Fyodor Dostoevski
1102) “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.” Fyodor
Dostoevski
1103) “You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred
memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man
carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And
even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our
salvation one day.” Fyodor Dostoevski
 1104) “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
Ferdinand Foch
1105) “God gave us memories, that we might have June roses in the December
of our lives.” James Barrie
1106) “When I give, I give myself.” Walt Whitmat
1107) “There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none lives to self alone. All
that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own.” Edwin Markham
1108) “He drew a circle that shut me out; heretic, rebel, a thing to flout, but love
and I had the wit to win; we drew a circle that took him in.” Edwin Markham
1109) “No person was ever honored for what he received; honor has been the
reward for what he gave.” Calvin Coolidge
1110) “The measure of a life is not its duration, but its donation.” Peter Marshall
1111) “If it didn’t look effortless you hadn’t learned it yet.” James Goslina
(designer of Java at Sun Microsystems)

AUTHOR UNKNOWN
1112) “A Christ-centered life is like a good watch: open face, busy hands, pure
gold and full of good works.” ???
1113) “If we can love without boundaries, we can have success without
boundaries.” ???
1114) “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ???
1115) “Everything I know I learned one mistake at a time.” ???
1116) “Love is a verb.” ???
1117) “A bell is no bell til you ring it; a song is no song til you sing it; love in your
heart wasn't put there to stay, love isn't love til you give it away.” Unknown
1118) “There are two lasting gifts we can give to our children: one is roots, the
other wings.” ???
1119) “No man is an island entirely by himself-he is a piece of continent.” ???
1120) “Prayer keeps a man from sin. Sin keeps a man from prayer.” ???
1121) “The harder you work the harder it is to give up.” ???
1122) “Yes, it’s true: We can’t control the wind or the rain or the other vagaries of
weather. But we can track our sails such that we can steer the course we desire.” ???
1123) “Don’t worry about whether your vision is new, let other people make that
decision they usually do.” ???
1124) “To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is
impossible for talent is the mark of genius.” ??? (Valley Furniture and Interiors)
1125) “Dear Brother though you are bound in jail. Yet never fear the powers of
hell. Your God he will deliver you. Therefore fear not what men can do. Let all the
hosts of hell engage. With all their malice spite and rage. The Mormonites God will
defend. Who are so called by wicked men.” ???
1126) “The sealing power gives us membership in the earthly kingdom which is
the Church, and in the heavenly kingdom which is the celestial realm where God and
Christ are.” ???
 1127) “I have an everyday religion that always works. Love God first and
everything falls into line. You really have to love God to get anything done in this
world.” ???
1128) “Commitment is doing what usually everyone can do but doesn’t.” ???
1129) “There are no unimportant days in the lives of the anxiously engaged.”
???
1130) “You can count the amount of seeds in an apple but you can’t count the
amount of apples in a seed.” ???
1131) “Your success, health, happiness, and wealth can be attributed to the
choice of your attitude.” ???
1132) “Somewhere there’s someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your
presence that life is worthwhile, so when you are lonely, remember it’s true:
somebody, somewhere is thinking if you.” ???
1133) “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things.” ???
1134) “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.” ???
1135) “See yourselves as God sees you.” ???
1136) “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual
beings having a human experience.” ???
1137) “IF I KNEW-If I knew it would be the last time That I'd see you fall asleep, I
would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep. If I knew it would
be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and
call you back for one more. If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear your voice lifted
up in praise, I would video tape each action and word, so I could play them back day
after day. If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute to stop and
say "I love you," instead of assuming you would KNOW I do. If I knew it would be the
last time I would be there to share your day, Well I'm sure you'll have so many more,
so I can let just this one slip away. For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for
an oversight, and we always get a second chance to make everything just right. There
will always be another day to say "I love you," And certainly there's another chance to
say our "Anything I can do?" But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get,
I'd like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget. Tomorrow is not
promised to anyone, young or old alike, And today may be the last chance you get to
hold your loved one tight. So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today? For if
tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day, That you didn't take that extra time
for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out
to be their one last wish. So hold your loved ones close today, and whisper in their
ear, Tell them how much you love them and that you'll always hold them dear Take
time to say "I'm sorry," ”Please forgive me," "Thank you," or "It's okay." And if
tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today..” ???
1138) “All the water in the world, no matter how hard it tried, could never sink a
ship unless it got inside. And all the evil in the world, the blackest sin and kind, can
never hurt you one least bit, unless: you let it in.” ???
1139) “All the water in the world, no matter how it tried, could never sink the
smallest ship unless it got inside. All the evil of the world, and every kind of sin, could
never damn a human soul, unless we let it in.” ???
 1140) “We must go the extra mile.” ???
1141) “If we individually give heed to the lessons of the past, we will find
ourselves ready to sacrifice when the Lord requires it, because we will have chosen to
align ourselves with His servants.” ???
1142) “I complained because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.”
???
1143) “Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose,
rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events
of your selection.” ???
1144) “We must consider the blessings that we have, don’t think what could be
better. Think of what you could do to fix it.” ???
1145) “If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you it is yours. If it
doesn’t, it never was.” ??? (But don’t give up looking)
1146) “You might have walked where Jesus walked and stayed where he was
staying; You might have eaten bread and sop and knelt where he was praying; He
might have washed your weary feet and wiped them with his dryer; He might have laid
his precious hands upon your head with fire. You might have eased his weary way
and wiped away his bleeding; You might have helped in his defense when he was
sorely needing; Most disappointing words are oft expressed by tongue and writing;
The saddest words, “It might have been,” are always the most biting.” ??? 18
1147) “The task before us is never as strong as the power behind us.” ???
1148) “Suffering is mandatory, but misery is optional.” ???
1149) “You have never failed until you quit trying.” ???
1150) “The measure of a man is his word.” ???
1151) “Pride is like underwear, it is necessary but indecent when exposed.”
(When a humble confidence goes sour and turns prideful and selfish) ???
1152) “By knowledge we overcome fear.” ???
1153) “Necessity is the mother of invention.” ???
1154) “To make people think outside the box don’t have the box at all.” ???
1155) “If you can see Christ in her, that strengthens the two of you.” ???
1156) “When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high, and don’t be
afraid of the dark.” ???
1157) “The most important testimony does not come by sight, the Savior may be
a lot closer than you think.” ???
1158) “As members of the Church we need to learn to distinguish between
counsel and commandment.” ???
1159) “The most important commandment is the one you are having trouble
keeping.” ???
1160) “I am only an average man, but by George I work harder than the average
man.” ???
1161) “The race isn’t done until the race is done.” ???
1162) “It is better to weigh our blessings than to multiply our grievances.” ???
1163) “With out the doctrine of God being our Father we are left to think of Him
as a supreme being who sent us here to tag with us as we go through calamities, trials
and tribulations.” ???
1164) “Strangers are only brothers and sisters you haven’t met yet.” ???
 1165) “Where you tend a rose my lad a thistle cannot grow.” ???
1166) “To be busy and productive are two different things.” ???
1167) “When you do something well you make an investment.” ???
1168) “Procrastination is how we justify the inability to make a decision.” ???
1169) “Gravity isn’t easy but it is the law.” ???
1170) “There are only two types of complainers: men and women.” ???
1171) “If you can’t have the best, make the best of what you have.” ???
1172) “Only those who try and resist temptation know how strong it is.” ???
(D&C 29:39)
1173) “If you want change, change yourselves.” ???
1174) “Stones and chains are not to my liking. Sad and downhearted I will never
be. The stars and great moon shall smile upon my flee from you. Catch me if you
can...” ???
1175) “It’s as if we all are a big wheel, each representing a spoke of the whole.”
???
1176) “The ways of the world are migrating into religion.” ???
1177) “A goal not written is just a wish.” ???
1178) “When the Lord is involved in your life there is no such thing as
coincidences.” ???
1179) “Don’t fear the person who can put you to death. Fear the person who
can send you to hell.” ???
1180) “You can’t put a price on the pursuit of knowledge and or happiness.” ???
1181) “We are the weather forecasters, with the power to change and govern the
length of the seasons.” ???
1182) “You can’t pray a lie.” ???
1183) “Happiness is not a destination but a mode of travel.” ???
1184) “You can look at the commandments of God as a barrier or as a bridge.”
???
1185) “For as a man walketh the roads of life…so shall he continue after…so
how much better to not walk alone.” ???
1186) “If Christ is your co-pilot you need to switch seats.” ???
1187) “Time goes by fast in comparison with how much we enjoy the time.” ???
1188) “How we behave determines who we are.” ???
1189) “The hero is no braver than the ordinary man but he is brave five minutes
longer.” ???
1190) “A positive man is one who makes a sure foundation out of the rocks
people throw at him.” ???
1191) “Christ, He died for us, but now, He lives for us.” ???
1192) “Sometimes, we sacrifice what we want most for what we want in the
moment.” ???
1193) “Integrity is sometimes more telling the truth, than telling lies.” ???
1194) “Hate is love gone wrong. We hate those whom we might have loved.” ???
1195) “Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the root, kind words are the
blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.” ???
1196) “We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.” ???
1197) “The Lord will either use you as a bad example or a good example.” ???
 1198) “We should try to bless not impress.” ???
1199) “It doesn’t matter what path you take if you don’t know where you are
going.” ???
1200) “Stay green because when you are ripe you are close to being rotten.” ???
1201) “Consistency is the father of destiny.” ???
1202) “If the Lord wanted us perfect; he would have made us perfect, but He
wants us to be perfect with the knowledge of becoming perfect.” ???
1203) “DOING beats stewing!” ???
1204) “If you think you are beaten--you are. If you think that you dare not--you
don't. If you'd like to win, but fear you can't, it's fifty to one you won't.” ???
1205) “Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired
and discouraged men who kept on working.” ???
1206) “Don't ask the Lord to guide your footsteps unless you are willing to move
your feet.” ???
1207) “Failure is an event, not a person.” ???
1208) “If people spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they would
soon have nothing to grumble about.” ???
1209) “All god's testings have a purpose, someday you will see the light. But for
now just put your trust in him: Walk by faith, not by sight.” ???
1210) “A good bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.” ???
1211) “The trials of life are to make us better-----not bitter.” ???
1212) “If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson
you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you
may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all . . .” ???
1213) “The road is better because you have traveled it.” ???
1214) “Amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it.” ???
1215) “Have you GROWN or did you GROAN!!” ???
1216) “Thank God for what you have. Trust God for what you need.” ???
1217) “The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to
be happy is to make others so.” ???
1218) “Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles----It empties today of its
strength.” ???
1219) “Do not pray for a light burden----Pray for a strong back.” ???
1220) “Truth stands up to examination. False ideas do not.” ???
1221) “The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority. The test of
courage comes when we are in a minority.” ???
1222) “Don't give up what you want most, For what you want now.” ???
1223) “7 days without prayer makes one weak.” ???
1224) “He who limps is also walking.” ???
1225) “Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.” ???
1226) “The best angle to approach a problem is the Try-angle.” ???
1227) “It’s better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you are
not.” ???
1228) “Sometimes things become possible if we want them enough.” ???
1229) “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and
the lost opportunity.” ???
 1230) "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely
in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly
used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming... WOW - What a Ride!" ???
1231) “True happiness is enjoying the present without anxiously waiting for the
future.” ???
1232) “If you wait to be happy, you will never be.” ???
1233) “When we live our lives correctly we lend credibility to the Lord and to His
church.” ???
1234) “Our lives are sermons. Live it, so that as you walk, people say a quiet
‘amen’.” ???
1235) “Man is very inconsistent. He cannot avoid change, although good change
can avoid him.” ???
1236) “Man as a divine soul grows in self-restraint, not personal satisfaction.”
???
1237) “The primary reason for our dissatisfaction with our own condition is out
absurdly exaggerated estimation of the happiness of others.” ???
1238) “Faith is the premise, not the result.” ???
1239) “If you feel your lot is empty, build a service station on it.” ???
1240) “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” ???
1241) “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” ???
1242) “Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and
character, hope.” ???
1243) “Life is short, live it to the fullest.” ???
1244) “Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a direct
question.” ???
1245) “Minds are like parachutes – they function only when open.” ???
1246) “It is easy to fly into a passion – anyone can do this – but to be angry
(more as Christ was in the temple; bold, direct and honest) with the right person to the
right extent at the right time in the right way – that is not easy, and not everyone can
do it.” ???
1247) “Dive head first into anything that catches your interest. Then it’s sink or
swim, if you can’t swim, worry about it later, just keep working hard and you’ll come
out on top.” ???
1248) Life is what you make of it, so make the most of it.” ???
1249) “Work like you don’t need the money, laugh until your stomach hurts,
snore like no one is listening, live as though heaven is on earth.” ???
1250) “Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is not noise,
trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in
your heart.” ???
1251) “In wanting the impossible, you get the best possible.” ???
1252) “Good people always have a good time.” ???
1253) “If we did everything we are capable of doing we would amaze
ourselves.” ???
1254) “If He brought you to it, he will get you through it.” ???
1255) “In dreams and love, there are no impossibilities.” ???
 1256) “No matter how tall the mountain, it cannot block out the sun.” ???
1257) “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it.” ???
1258) “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of
all.” Disney’s Mulan (see David O. McKay’s quotation)
1259) “Faliure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches
ambition.” ???
1260) “So many of us don’t realize how connected we are. It’s not a coincidence
that when you stare into someone’s eyes you see a small you looking back.” ???
1261) “The biggest disease in this day and age is that of people feeling
unloved.” ???
1262) “Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because
they are determined to.” ???
1263) “It's the absent who are judged guilty-and who are put on committees.”
???
1264) “A chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of a blockhead.” ???
1265) “To learn the worth of money, try borrowing some.” ???
1266) “The man who can't make a choice makes a choice.” ???
1267) “Life is for becoming perfect and not just for being perfect.” ???
1268) “Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ???

-Christ Has No Hands But Our Hands-

1269) “Christ has no hands but our hands to do his work today. He has no
tongue but our tongues to tell men how he died. He has no help but our help to lead
men to his side. What if our hands are busy, with other work than His? What if our feet
are walking, where sin’s allurement is? What if our tongues are speaking of things His
lips would shun? How can we hope to help Him, or hasten His return?” Author
Unknown

-Take Risks-
1270) “To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing
sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to
risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to
risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To
hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken, because the
greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing,
has nothing, and is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow but he simply cannot
learn, feel, change, grow, love . . . live. Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he
has forfeited freedom. Only a person who risks is free. Risks...” Author Unknown

-Don't Quit-
1271) “When things go wrong as they some times will; when the road you are
trudging seems all uphill, when the funds are low and the debts are high; when you
want to smile but you have to sigh; when care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you
must, but don't you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, as every one of us
sometime learns; Don't give up though the pace seems slow; you might succeed with
another blow. And many a failure turns about when he might have won had he stuck it
out; Success is failure turned inside out--the silver lining of the cloud of doubt, and you
can never tell how close you are; it may be near when it seems afar; So stick to the
fight when you are hardest hit; It's when things get worse that you mustn't quit!” ???

1272) “Sometimes we pay too much attention to the ‘return’ rather than to the
‘returned’.” ?? (Prodigal Son – Remember the righteous. Covet – To forget
what we have.)
1273) “The church and the family are mutually tied together-they’re inseparable.” ??
1274) “There have been many dispensations and the most important dispensation is
the one we’re in right now. The Gospel is here right now and we are the
messengers spreading the good news.” ??
1275) “You traverse the world in search of happiness when you should just look at
what’s inside your hand.” ??
1276) “His testimony increased the kerosene in my testimony lamp.” ??
1277) “Realization of self comes with the realization of who your Savior is.” (then and
only then) ??
1278) “I’m a spiritual addict and you can’t heal me. Develop Christ-like habits...after
all, aren’t habits hard to break.” ??
1279) “Strive for charity, for it never faileth and will be standing when the adversary
finally gives up and fails.” ??
1280) “The good thing about mistakes is that you never run out of them.” ??
(Stemmed from the principle that you must make 2,000,000 mistakes in order
to learn a language.)
1281) “Don’t get tired until you get on your knees. And then don’t go to sleep until you
are in bed.” ??
1282) “It’s not as important where I came from or where I’m at; as where I’m going.”
??
1283) “As our understanding grows, so does our capacity for truth.” ??
1284) “It’s hard to be cool or new aged when we are all draped in white.” ??
1285) “They have to be taught to become as we are-because they come clothed in
the amour of God and are trusting, loving, meek and pure.” ?? (new-born
babies)
1286) “It’s the little things that recharge the batteries in the smoke detectors which
detect the fires of the adversary.” ??
1287) “The Holy Ghost is fluent in the language of the spirit and not too far behind
are its carriers.” ??
1288) “Sometimes the most difficult decisions are between the two good ones. The
easy distinction is the black and white.” ?? (Pick the better and go with it)
1289) “The pathway to God is like an escalator sloped down: If we don’t do anything
we go down. If we do a little we stay in the same place. We have to work hard
to go up-to get closer to God.” ??
1290) “A person is meant to be read not just looked at.” ??
1291) “When we believe we understand.” ??
1292) “Keeping the commandments sheds light on the nooks and crannies in our
sometimes shadowed lives.” ??
1293) “What do you think about when you don’t have to think? That shows what is
most important to you.” ??
1294) “Truth is never restrictive. It is enhancing and enlarging. In other words
revelatory.” ??
1295) “One must first understand oneself before he can create a masterpiece.” ??
1296) “If everything was done or felt instantaneous then there would be no test of
strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free
agency...There would also be an absence of joy, success, resurrection, eternal
life and Godhood.” ??
1297) “Don’t take on too much or too much will take you down.” ??
1298) “Justification is a qualification for destruction.” ??
1299) “When all the world and life seems to be too much, all it takes is (He calms us
with) His gentle touch.” ??
1300) “Love is the greatest motivator in this life and the life to come.” ??
1301) “People may listen to what you are saying but do they watch what you do?” ??
1302) “That which is most rewarding, pure, and precious lies down the road just
beyond the extra mile.” ??
1303) “It’s not how much you read that counts but how much you ponder. Then how
much you ponder is not as important as how much you do (apply).” ?? (It’s a
step-by-step process. We are not expected to do all, all at once. Begin to
read, ponder then do (apply).)
1304) “Focus on the right things and you will never go wrong.” ??
1305) “Focus on the right things and the right things will focus on you.” ??
1306) “In this race called life it’s those who slow down and stop to help those around
them who will at the finish line eventually come out on top.” ?? (Inspired from
the two-hour stint we took traveling back from BYU-Provo on 21 June 2003.
We stopped because of Brooke’s car at a rest stop where we eventually helped
a distraught lady, and her young daughter, meet up with her mother)
1307) “Fear, of course limits, constrains, closes, hinders, constricts, even thwarts, but
worse of all fear opens the gateway for the adversary to waltz on in.” ??
1308) “Love destroys fear, you can’t fear that which you love.” ??
1309) “We need to set a celestial standard if we want to receive celestial joy.” ??
1310) “Occupy your mind with things of eternity so that which is temporary won’t have
any room.” ??
1311) “Only when I give do I truly live.” ??
1312) “Develop Christ-Like habits because they’re hard to break.” ??
1313) “Become addicted to righteousness so there is no hope for the deceiving
“healing” powers of the adversary.” ??
1314) “Don’t let your emotions supersede what the spirit is trying to tell you.” ??
1315) “You may not know what you’re going to do that day, but the Spirit does.
Therefore He will guide you and prompt you.” ??
1316) “You can’t future feel but you know how you feel right now.” ??
1317) “The feeling we have not fully preparing for a test as we sit in the testing center
pales in comparison with the feeling we would have standing in front of the
Savior not fully prepared to meet Him. Are you ready to meet me?” ??
1318) “Let’s not make this a Vacation Church: Casual, comfy, convenient and not
really listening.” ??
1319) “Kindness doesn’t sugar coat things; it just puts a nice, tasty cream on the
outside.” ??
1320) “The silence during a prayer is unmatched; it’s as if you can hear the windows
of heaven slowly being unlatched.” ??
1321) “The Holy Ghost works on a case-by-case basis.” ??
1322) “Some problems have to be dealt with outside of the problem.” ??
1323) “He truly wants us to live with Him again, because He truly understands how
important that is.” ??
1324) “The spiritual body gains victory over the natural, imperfect, physical body
when faith and hope supersede the temporary bodily pain. The ultimate victory,
Resurrection, was exactly that.” ??
1325) “We love Christ not because He is beautiful, popular, and cool or because
everyone else loves Him. We love Him because of what He did for us and
because He loved us first.” ??
1326) “We are bound to Him by loving ties and ropes.” ??
1327) “There is one person that never, ever will fail me. 100% guaranteed and fool-
proof-That’s my Savior.” ??
1328) “A promise is all about faith. A promise is only as strong as your own faith in
your own self and in God Himself.” ??
1329) “...where there’s youth, there’s hope...where there’s hope, there’s
wonder...where there’s wonder, there’s faith...where there’s faith, there’s
chance...where there’s chance, there’s love...where there’s love, there’s
God...and that’s all that matters.” ??
1330) “We may not be perfect but we can have perfect love.” ??
1331) “We should double major with one of them being a PR* with Christ.” ??
*Personal Relationship
1332) “Truth and light are reflections/manifestations of love.” ??
1333) “We shouldn’t run faster than we have strength, but by golly we can run.” ??
1334) “It’s the love of evil that kills us. It’s the love of good that saves us.” ??
1335) “We must obtain an attitude of “Nevertheless.” ??
1336) “If you are moving slow, locked in by sound principle, strapped in by the seat
belts of high standards and if His Hand is on the wheel, you won’t crash.” ??
1337) “When we love we see through God’s eyes.” ??
1338) “Love is the lodestar, love is the North Star. Let it guide your life and you will
be wrapped up in the arms of His love.” ??
1339) “It’s amazing what we can do when we are fueled by love.” ?? (You will surprise
yourself)
1340) “Let the relationship take its natural course and the Lord will take the helm.” ??
1341) “Strive to be the best and the best will find you.” ??
1342) “Perception never was deception until it becomes a bad complexion.” ??
1343) “She laughs, she loves it. And so do I.” ??
1344) “Two is better than one. Then why try to have all the fun?” ??
1345) “Your integrity is the most important thing you can lose. People sell it all the
time.” ??
1346) “The adversary is the waiter who needs no tips. He just keeps on bringing it.”
??
1347) “The atonement must be felt in order for it to have meaning in your life.” ??
1348) “If I want to be in the presence of the Lord, I must treat His presence as a gift.”
??
1349) “Pride just prolongs the pain.” ??
1350) “The best protection is truth.” ??
1351) “It’s all in containing and maintaining, not simply obtaining.” ?? (The spirit and
the change of heart)
1352) “We continue to work in the Lord’s army as best as we can, thrusting forth our
sickles in his incredible land. The love our Savior has for us is absolutely
indescribable. This gospel and its potential is simply unfathomable. To follow
His perfect example is the least we can do, after all, He suffered and bled for us
too. As He lay on the cross shedding His tears, He saw each and every one of
us, our sins and our fears. Because of His love, we are never alone. So stretch
forth your hand and He will take you all the way home.” ??
1353) “A holy relationship with a loved one IS what it’s cracked up to be.” ??
1354) “Sometimes the best thing you can give is yourself.” ??
1355) “The most serious sin is the one you are committing right now.” ??
1356) “Time is love and love is commitment.” ??
1357) “Don’t shortchange eternal life, the atonement, and eternal marriage, all of
those involve the Lord.” ??
1358) “Make time for the Lord and He will make time for you.” ??
1359) “You don’t make friends, you become one first.” ??
1360) “Learn to love, love to learn.” ??
1361) “Truth has a sticker on it that says ‘Best if used by now.’” ??
1362) “Being converted to the gospel is like learning a new language. What once was
foreign, difficult to grasp and impossible to understand is now second nature.”
??
1363) “Light-mindedness, disobedience and such vulnerabilities are fertilizers for
doubt.” ??
1364) “Nothing is more frustrating to evil than a convicted soul, intrepid and built on a
ROCK.” ??
1365) “A proactive chooser of the right is not malleable.” ??
1366) “As I go higher my lows get higher too.” ??
1367) “What we are capable of becoming is sometimes different than what we have
become.” ??
1368) “The Spirit is like a well-timed fortune cookie; foreseeing, confirming and
exciting.” ??
1369) “The problem with letting the adversary take a ride is that he likes to drive.” ??
1370) “We have to continue to seek and study the words of the Christ because at any
moment and at any time we may need to hear a certain doctrine.” ??
1371) “Much of life is spent trying to figure out who God is when you already decided
long ago when you decided to come here to this earth, acknowledging that it
was His plan you preferred and He who truly loved you.” ??
1372) “A perfect love, reveals our true identity and sets us free from the
constraining bonds of fear.” ??

To be continued . . .