(The scriptures) have no expiration date attached to them.
— Thomas S. Monson from October 2001 General Conference
…this thing we call ‘failure’ is not falling down, but the staying down.
— Mary Pickford
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
— Mildred W. Struven
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
— Rita Mae Brown
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.
— Confucius
A mind that is stretched with new ideas never returns to its original shape.
— Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
— Walt Whitman
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
— Walter Winchell
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Action is the foundational key to all success.
— Tony Robbins
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
— T. E. Lawrence from Lawrence of Arabia
All the while thou studiest revenge, thou art tearing thine own wound open.
— Thomas Fuller
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you into trouble.
— Frank Tyger
Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
— Teresa of Avila
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your chacacter is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— John Wooden
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
— Liz Smith
Believe in yourselves, my brothers and sisters. You are a child of God. You do have something of divinity in you. Believe in your capacity to do great and good things.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Boast not of what thou would’st have done, but do.
— John Milton
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
— The Koran
Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Clear your mind of ‘can’t.’
— Samuel Johnson
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
— William Feather
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval.
— Thomas S. Monson
Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant never taste of death but once.
— William Shakespeare from Julius Caesar: Act II, Scene II
Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Concern yourself only with how you look to God, with the idea that God has of you.
— Miguel de Unamuno
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Discipline is organized love.
— Jennifer Fellows from Sacrament Meeting Talk
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do–do it and let it speak for itself.
— Martin Vanbee
Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.
— Marie Curie
Enjoy yourself. These are the ‘good old days’ you’re going to miss in the years ahead.
— Unknown
Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
— Shakti Gawain
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven.
— Matthew Arnold
Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
— E.M. Forster
Faith is Power.
Repentance is Improvement.
Righteousness is a Happy Life.
Obedience is the Key to Success.
Humility is the Door to Exaltation.
— Hsieh Fan (Taiwan Taipei Temple President) from Sacrament Meeting Talk - 5/29/1999
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked.
— Unknown
Frienship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
— Woodrow Wilson
God does love 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 in the Kingdom.
— Spencer W. Kimball
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
— Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
— Vincent van Gogh
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.
— Channing Pollock
Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all of those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything.
— Norman Lear
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
— Aldous Huxley
Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.
— Alfred Capus
He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
— Horace
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
History rests on the shoulders of those who accepted the challenge of difficulties and drove through to victory in spite of everything.
— Hugh B. Brown
Hitch your wagon to a star.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
— Park Cousins
I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.
— Diane Ackerman
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
— Stephen Grellet
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
— Abraham Lincoln
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
— Hsieh Fan (Taiwan Taipei Temple President) from Sacrament Meeting Talk - 5/29/1999
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a shiny sliver out of one hour. I dropped it carelessly. Oh God! I knew not I held an opportunity.
— Hazel Lee
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich
I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
— Theodore Roosevelt
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
— Henry David Thoreau
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
— Abraham Lincoln
If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
— Mario Andretti
If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.
— Lord Milner
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
— Thomas Alva Edison
If we would find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, light in darkness; if we would learn how to bear adversity and scorn and how to fight life’s battles courageously; if we would find the best way of living, the noblest way of thinking, the most comfortable way of growing, it would be well for us to consult God’s chart and steer our lives by it. It will show us where the harbor is and how to reach it without running on the rocks, and will keep us from the bottom of the sea.
— Hugh B. Brown
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
— Elizabeth Bowen
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of the earth.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
— Anne Frank
Integrity has no need of rules.
— Albert Camus
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
— Abraham Lincoln
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
— Seneca
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, 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 other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ‘ordinary’ people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations — these are 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 splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously–no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner– no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.
— C.S. Lewis from from The Weight of Glory
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
— Christopher Society motto
It is love that must motivate the shepherds of Israel.
— Henry B. Eyring from April 2001 General Conference
It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.
— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
— Epicurus
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
— Thomas Hurley
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.
— Katharine Butler Hathaway
It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.
— Grenville Kleiser
It is the chiefest part of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
— Erasmus
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose–not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
— Anne Sullivan
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
— Mark Twain
Leadership is action, not position.
— Donald H. McGannon
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
— Charlotte Bronte
Life is not about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
— Native American Proverb
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
magna est veritas et praevalebit
Truth is great and will prevail.
— Unknown
Marriage ain’t easy, but nothing that’s worth much ever is.
— Lillian Carter
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
— Sophia Loren
More children are punished for mimicking their parents than for disobeying them — be a better example.
— Jennifer Fellows from Sacrament Meeting Talk
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
Knowledge itself is power.
— Francis Bacon
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Never tear another man’s house down. If you wish to use a hammer, use it in building a house of your own.
— David O. McKay
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
— William Blake
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
— Pubililus Syrus
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
— Edmund Burke
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
— Michel de Montaigne
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
— E. Joseph Crossman
One can never consent to creep when one has the impulse to soar.
— Helen Keller
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
— Mark Twain
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experiences breathes on in generations we’ll never even meet.
— Mary Kay Blakely
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
— Elbert Hubbard
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
— Robert F. Kennedy
Optimism is an intellectual choice.
— Diana Schneider
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test of our civilization.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves–to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
— Stewart B. Johnson
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, fabulous?
Actually who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us, it is in everyone.
And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fears, our presence automatically liberates others.
— Nelson Mandella
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who glibly talk about “hate crimes” ignore both the past and the implications for the future in what they are advocating. It took centuries of struggle and people putting their lives on the line to get rid of the idea that a crime against “A” should be treated differently than the same crime committed against “B.” After much sacrifice and bloodshed, the principle finally prevailed that killing a peasant deserved the same punishment as killing a baron. Now the “hate crime” advocates want to undo all that and take us back to the days when punishment did not fit the crime, but varied with who the crime was committed against.
— Thomas Sowell from Jewish World Review 10/20/98
Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don’t see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die.
— Gary Hirshberg
Relationships are a prerequisite for producing results beyond ourselves. They expand our imaginations to infinite possibilities that cannot exist in a life of isolation.
— Brian Koslow
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
— Katherine Mansfield
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
— Oscar Wilde
Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
— Unknown
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
— Mark Twain
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
— Winston Churchill
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
— Charles O. Finley
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
— Karl Menninger
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.
— Unknown
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
— George C. Scott
The impossible is often the untried.
— Jim Goodwin
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
— Bishop W. C. Magee
The most needed, wanted, and powerful activity in which you can engage on or off the job is to authentically recognize, acknowledge, and appreciate others.
— Brian Koslow
The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.
— Unknown
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires the sunlight, good food, proper exercise, and rest, so the spirit of man requires the sunlight of the Holy Spirit; proper exercise of the spiritual functions; avoiding of evils that affect spiritual health, which are more ravaging in their effects than typhoid fever, pneumonia, or other diseases that attack the body.
— David O. McKay
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
— Vince Lombardi
The rose and the thorn, the sorrow and gladness are linked together.
— Saadi
The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
— John Flavel
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
— Baltasar Gracian
The soul is healed by being with children.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
— Confucius
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
— Lily Tomlin
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them: a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.
— Michel de Montaigne
The work praises the man.
— Irish proverb
The world belongs to the energetic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
— Albert Einstein
The world is our responsibility. We cannot evade it.
— Gordon B. Hinckley from Ensign, May 1986, p. 42
The worst punishment of all is that in the court of his own conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
— Juvenal from Satires, xiii
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
— Beverly Sills
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of them is roots; the other, wings.
— Hodding Carter
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
— Douglas Everett
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.
— Archibald MacLeish
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
— Phyllis Bottome
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
— Elbert Hubbard
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
— Robert Alden
There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
— Havelock Ellis
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
— Sam Walton
There’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
— Samuel Butler
They’re Sunday School answers because they’re the right answers.
— Tony Stirling
Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.
— Paul Claudel
To affect the quality of the day– that is the highest of the arts.
— Henry David Thoreau
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
— Bertrand Russell
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
— Confucius
We can’t lead, or draw, others to the Lord unless we stand closer to him than they do!
— Neal A. Maxwell from from Deposition of a Disciple, 1976 p.36
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.
— Winston Churchill
We must become involved in civic affairs. As citizens of this republic we cannot do our duty and be idle spectators.
— Ezra Taft Benson from Ensign, November 1987 p.102
We will either find a way, or make one.
— Hannibal
We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone — but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
— Walter Anderson
What a man can imagine he may one day achieve.
— Nancy Hale
What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.
— George Eastman
What you are thunders so loudly that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the Spirit of God burns in your soul, you cannot be otherwise than happy.
— George Albert Smith
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
— Henri Nouwen from Out of Solitude
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!
— Rabbi Harold Kushner
You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
— Unknown
You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish; if this be so, why not now and where you stand.
— Robert Stevenson
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live.
— Joan Baez
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You will have all kinds of trials to pass through and it is quite as necessary for you to be tested even as Abraham and other men of God… God will feel after you. He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings. And if you cannot stand it, you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Kingdom of God.
— John Taylor from as quoted by Harold B. Lee, April 1963 Conference
Your own doubt is your opponent’s greatest strength.
— Ralph S. Marston, Jr.
Your self-esteem must ultimately come from within.
— Hyrum W. Smith
[W]e may not always be able to keep an evil thought from entering our minds, but we don’t have to offer it a chair and invite it to sit down!
— Neal A. Maxwell (attr. to his mission president) from 2 May 1993 Priesthood Fireside
