Wow What a Ride

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow what a ride!"

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Cares the Most

The one that cares the most, fights the hardest.

Unknown

Another Kind of Faith

There is another kind of faith, rare indeed. This is the kind of faith that causes things to happen. It is the kind of faith that is worthy and prepared and unyielding, and it calls forth things that otherwise would not be. It is the kind of faith that moves gradual growth. It is a marvelous, even a transcendent power, a power as real and as invisible as electricity. Directed and channeled, it has great effect... This kind of Faith is the fruit that comes from consistently living in the light.

Boyd K. Packer

Courage Doesn't Roar

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

Mary Anne Radmacher

Get What You've Been Getting

Doing what you've been doing is going to get you what you've been getting.

Seth Godin

Do Not Give Up Hope

I have met people who have lost all hope. Repentance, they feel, is beyond their reach and forgiveness outside their grasp. Such do not understand the cleansing power of the Atonement. Or, if they do understand, they have not internalized the meaning of Jesus Christ's suffering in Gethsemane and on the cross. For any of us to give up hope for the purifying of our lives is to disavow the depth, power, and extent of His suffering on our behalf.

Richard C. Edgley

Eternal Consequences

I can't stress too strongly that decisions determine destiny. You can't make eternal decisions without eternal consequences.

Thomas S. Monson

Keeping Promises

The Lord is keeping his promises to you as you keep yours.

Henry B Eyring

Close My Eyes and Leap

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be... because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!

Mary Anne Radmacher

True Strength

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

Washing Machines

Problems are like washing machines; They twist us, spin us, knock us around, but in the end we come out cleaner brighter and better than before.

Greatest Mistake

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Another Door Open

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

A Thousand Reasons

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

Unknown

Not Ready For It

If something is not happening for you it doesn't mean it's never going to happen, it means you're not ready for it.

Unknown

Learn From the Past

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But, you can either run from it or, learn from it.

Rafiki (The Lion King)

Dream a Dream

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C.S. Lewis

Intricately Woven

The priesthood is intricately woven into who we are and have ever been. As sons and daughters of God, we each have unique responsibilities and roles, and through the blessings of the priesthood, we are all given equal partnership, gifts, and blessings.

Julie B. Beck

Man of Value

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Receive the Power of God

To honor our priesthood, and to magnify our callings in both the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods, is to receive the power of God in our lives.

M. Russell Ballard

Best Way Out

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Excellence is a Habit

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

Hammer and Forge

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Henry David Thoreau

The Life he Broke Off

To the man of faith, death is but the taking up again of the life he broke off when he came to this earth.

Heber J. Grant

Right To Say

I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

Courage is a Virtue

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

C. S. Lewis

To Live Defeated

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Allows Experience

God doesn't give us trials but allows us to experience them.

Small Things

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Take a Step

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

C. S. Lewis

An Abiding Faith

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

Thomas S. Monson

The First Step

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success vs Happiness

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Dale Carnegie

Succession of Lessons

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller

Real Intent

To access information from heaven, one must first have a firm faith and a deep desire. One needs to 'ask with a sincere heart [and] real intent, having faith in [Jesus] Christ.'  'Real intent' means that one really intends to follow the divine direction given.

Russell M. Nelson

Footprints on the Moon

Don't tell me the sky is the limit, when there are footprints on the moon.

Brandt Paul

Resisting the Impulse

Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

Thomas S. Monson

Start Pretending

You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.

Batman Begins

Roses and Thorns

Instead of saying that roses COME WITH THORNS, it is better to say that THORNS COME WITH roses.

Ellen White

Powerful Beyond Measure

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's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. 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.


Marianne Williamson

Good For My Health

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

Voltaire

If We Are Preoccupied

The Spirit does not get our attention by shouting or shaking us with a heavy hand. Rather it whispers. It caresses so gently that if we are preoccupied we may not feel it at all.

Boyd K. Packer

A More Glorious One

If God deprives His children of any present blessing, it is so He may bestow upon them a greater and more glorious one by and by.

George Q. Cannon

Fire Hydrant

Though God always meters out life's challenges so that they don't exceed our ability to cope, there may be times and seasons, mightn't there, when from our standpoint we feel we are encountering a fire hydrant's torrent of tribulation?

Neal A. Maxwell

Face the Unknown

When you are confronted with challenges that are difficult to conquer or you have questions arise, the answers to which you do not know, hold fast to the things you do know. Hang on to your firmest foundation, however limited that may be, and from that position of strength face the unknown.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Expect a Miracle

When the Lord said, "Lengthen your stride, quicken your pace, heighten your reach, widen your vision, and stretch your capacity," he was in reality saying "expect a miracle," for these are the stuff from which miracles are made.

Hartman Rector Jr.

Continual Becoming

To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship.  I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

Dear Bought Experience

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from our past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.

George Washington

Refusing to Hold Hostage

We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!

Neal A. Maxwell

Two Ways to Live

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

Criticized Anyway

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Not Passively Waiting

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

Unknown

Why Not Pray More Regularly?

You who pray sometimes, why not pray more regularly, more often, more devoutly? Is time so precious, life so short, or faith so scant?... Do you pray occasionally when you should be praying regularly, often, constantly?... Do you just speak, or do you also listen?... Do you give thanks or merely ask for favors?

Spencer W. Kimball

A Moonbeam

A testimony is fragile. It is as hard to hold as a moonbeam. It is something you have to recapture every day of your life.

Harold B. Lee

Our Full Capacity

The Lord doesn't expect us to work harder than we are able. He doesn't (nor should we) compare our efforts to those of others. Our Heavenly Father asks only that we do the best we can - that we work according to our full capacity, however great or small that may be.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Faith is a Decision

Faith is not only a feeling; it is a decision.  With prayer, study, obedience, and covenants, we build and fortify our faith.  Our conviction of the Savior and His latter-day work becomes the powerful lens through which we judge all else.

Neil L. Andersen

I'm Possible

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Audrey Hepburn

Love is Never Wasted

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

Neal A. Maxwell

Where You Start

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein

Drinking From an Empty Cup

Trying to find lasting love without obeying God is like trying to quench thirst by drinking from an empty cup - you can go through the motions, but the thirst remains.

John H. Groberg

Everything Has Beauty

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

Tree and Shadow

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Wait to Do

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.

Win Borden

Enjoy the Sunlight

Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Faith in Something Greater

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

Gordon B Hinckley

Magical Effect

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Adams

Hardboiled Egg

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions.  You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hardboiled egg.

Maya Angelou

Object of Our Prayers

The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing.  Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

David A. Bednar

Far More Blessed

I know not by what methods rare,
But this I know: God answers prayer.
I know that he has given his word,
Which tells me prayer is always heard,
And will be answered soon or late,
And so I pray and calmly wait.
I know not if the message sought
Will come just in the way I thought;
But leave my prayers with Him alone
Whose ways are wiser than my own,
Assured that He will grant my quest,
Or send some answer far more blessed.

Safe Landing

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Unknown

Good Things

Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with 'good things' so there is no room for the essential ones.

Richard G. Scott

Stuck in the Mud

When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer - no matter how eloquent the oration.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Opinion and Perspective

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Marcus Aurelius

Current Conditions

Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential. But rather the size and quality of the goals upon which you are currently focusing.

Anthony Robbins

Nothing Can Stop the Man

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;  Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

Thomas Jefferson

Out of the Same Voice

At least some things we say can be destructive, even venomous--and that is a chilling indictment for a Latter-day Saint! The voice that bears profound testimony, utters fervent prayer, and sings the hymns of Zion can be the same voice that berates and criticizes, embarrasses and demeans, inflicts pain and destroys the spirit of oneself and others in the process. 'Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessings and cursing,' James grieves. 'My brethren [and sisters], these things ought not so to be' (james 3:10).

Jeffrey R. Holland
"The Tougue of Angels," Ensign, May 2007

If We Were Logical

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.

Jacques Cousteau

Improved Prayer

A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.

Richard G. Scott

Greatest Lesson

The greatest lesson we can learn in mortality is that when God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.

Thomas S. Monson

Dependent Happiness

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Richard Bach

Genius

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein

Flow of Revelation

The flow of revelation depends on your faith.  You exercise faith by causing, or by making, your mind accept or believe as truth that which you cannot, by reason alone, prove for certainty.

Boyd K. Packer

Benefit to Losing

There's a benefit to losing, you get to learn from your mistakes.

Megamind

The Will

There is a driving force more powerful then steam, electricity and atomic energy: the will.

Albert Einstein

Name of a Bird

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world but you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird ... Look at the bird and see what it's doing. That's what counts. There's a difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

Quest

When Obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Ezra Taft Benson

True Doctrine

True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the Gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior.

Boyd K. Packer

Not Without Our Consent

But he (Satan) cannot - in all eternity he cannot, with all his power he cannot - completely destroy us, not without our own consent.

Boyd K. Packer

Not for the Seasonal Worker

The cultivation of Christlike qualities is a demanding and relentless task - it is not for the seasonal worker or for those who will not stretch themselves, again and again.

Spencer W. Kimball

Fasten your Seat Belts

I do not know what lies ahead of you... but my advice would be to fasten your seat belts and hold on firmly to your principles.

Neal A. Maxwell

Act of Affection

Correction can be an act of affection.

Neal A. Maxwell

Mastery of Fear

Courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it.

Mark Twain

The Man Worthwhile

It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song.
But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Make a Choice

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.

William James

Most Serious Human Defect

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities NOW... Many have allowed themselves to be diverted and have become... addicts to mental and spiritual indolence and to the pursuit of worldly pleasure.

President Spencer W. Kimball

Around the Corner

Around the corner I have  a friend,
In this great city that has no end;
Yet days go by, and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my old friend's face,
For life is a swift and terrible race...
But tomorrow comes - and tomorrow goes,
And the distance between us grows and grows.

Around the corner - yet miles away...
"Here's a telegram, sirr...
Jim died today."
And that's what we get, and deserve in the end:
Around the corner, a vanished friend.

Charles Hanson Towne

Bitterest Tears

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Good Timber

The tree that never had to fight,

for sun and sky and air and light;

but stood out in the open plain 

and always got its share of rain.

Never became a forest king

but lived and died a scrubby thing.

The man who never had to toil

to gain and farm his patch of soil;

who never had to win his share 

of sun and sky and light and air.

Never became a manly man

but lived and died as he began.

Good timber does not grow with ease

the stronger wind the stronger trees;

the further sky, the greater length;

the more the storm, the more the strength.

By sun and cold, by rain and snow,

in trees and men good timbers grow.

Where thickest lies the forest growth

we find the patriarchs of both.

And they hold counsel with the stars

whose broken branches show the scars,

of many winds and much of strife.

This is the common law of life.

Douglas Malloch

A Society of Possible Gods

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 can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship... There are no ordinary people... Your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

C.S. Lewis

Sturdiest Plants

The sturdiest plants are not found under glass, and strength of character is not derived from the avoidance of problems.

Ruth May Fox

Rocks the Cradle

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

William R. Wallace

Adam's Sons

Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good.

C.S. Lewis (The Magician's Nephew)

What's a Girl Worth

You never know what a girl is worth,
you'll have to wait and see;
But every woman in a noble place,
A girl once used to be.

Jack M Lyon

Welcome to Daily Quotes

I've had this idea for a long time, but it took a good friend of mine to finally give me the push to do so. Since I always find or hear good quotes I thought it would be a good idea to make a collection that I or others could go to when they need a little pick-me-up. Eventually the collection will become more extensive but will start pretty small. I'm going to go ahead and put in enough catch up for the month of January, then start daily.