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.