Favorite Quotations

alabamabelle · Senior Member

Favorite Quotations

Dyany · Senior Member

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. -- Idon'trememberwhosaidit

Euphrasie · Senior Bucketkeeper

One of my favorites is this: "We read fairy tales, not to convince us that dragons are real, but to remind us that they can be defeated."

Also: "No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." ~Carrie Snow

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task. But I realize that it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as though they are great and noble." ~Helen Keller

"Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever."

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison

alabamabelle · Senior Member

those are GREAT!

thanks for sharing!

LoudmouthMormon · Profuse Pontificator

The time-honored tradition of "Westerners vs. Easterners" has fallen by the wayside in American culture over the last century. So how nice to find this gem:

"I can't undertake to explain Brigham Young to your Atlantic citizens, or expect you to put him at his value. Your great men Eastward are to me like your ivory and pearl handled table knives, with balanced handles, more shiny than the inside of my watch case; but, with only edge enough to slice bread and cheese or help spoon victuals, and all alike by the dozen one with another. Brigham is the article that sells out West with us- between a Roman cutlass and a beef butcher knife, the thing to cut up a deer or cut down an enemy, that will save your life or carve your dinner every bit as well, though the handpiece is buck horn and the case a hogskin hanging in the breech of your pantaloons. You, that judge men by the handle and the sheath, How can I make you know a good Blade?"
- From Jedidiah M. Grant, One of Brigham's Councilors, shortly after President Young's death

-- Edited by LoudmouthMormon at 16:11, 2007-12-10

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

"Sometimes the Lord calms the waters, but more often he calms the child in those waters." -- Elder John H. Groberg

"While virtue, by choice, will not associate with filth, evil cannot tolerate the presence of light." -- President Boyd K. Packer

"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." -- President Boyd K. Packer

"Love is like the polar star. In a changing world, it is a constant. It is of the very essence of the gospel. It is the security of the home. It is the safeguard of community life. It is a beacon of hope in a world or distress." -- President Gordon B. Hinckley

"{Leadership} involves... a personal and sincere interest in the problems and concerns of those who are being led and, most importantly, a willingness to get on one's knees and seek for greater power than that which one naturally possesses." -- President Gordon B. Hinckley

"A man filled iwth the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world anxious to bless the whole human race." -- Joseph Smith, Jr.

Poncho29 · Senior Bucketkeeper

This is more of a poem than a quote, but I kept in on my mirror when I was a teenager.

"All the water in the world
no matter how it tried,
could ever sink the smallest ship,
unless it got inside.

The darkest kind of evil
the blackest kind of sin
can never harm or hurt you
unless you let it in."

-author unknown

-- Edited by Poncho29 at 21:03, 2007-12-10

Poncho29 · Senior Bucketkeeper

My mom had these on a couple of index cards taped to the mirror in our main bathroom for years and years

(Just bear in mind that some of these slogans are really old and are not used anymore, but you get the idea)

God is like coke: He's the real thing.
God is like General Electric: He lights your path.
God is like Pan Am: He makes the going great.
God is like Alka Seltzer: Try him, you'll like him.
God is like Dial Soap: Aren't you glad you know him? Don't you wish everybody did?
God is like VO 5 hairspray: He holds through all kinds of weather.
God is like Wisk: He gets the stains out, that others leave behind.
God is like Scotch Tape: You can't see him, but you know he's there.

I think there were a few more, but I can't remember them.

-- Edited by Poncho29 at 21:05, 2007-12-10

nitasmile · Senior Member

~"Just do what needs to be done. This might not be happiness but it is greatness." (I forget who said- it was on some desk calendar I had)

~""let evey soul that touches yours get therefrom some good--some little grace, some kindly thought--to make heaven a surer heritage"- it is from a George Eliot poem

~"I have not yet met the man that deserves to be as happy as I can make him" ~ hanging on the door across the hall from me freshman year at BYU

~ Brigham Young's remarks, "Don't go" to a woman who told him her spouse told her to go to HE doble toothpicks!

Ros · Senior Member

Cat Herder wrote:

"Sometimes the Lord calms the waters, but more often he calms the child in those waters." -- Elder John H. Groberg

It's possible the movie dramatized this but i loved...

"Sometimes the Lord calms the sea, sometimes he calms the sailor...and sometimes he lets you swim."

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

Childhood is the most beautiful of all seasons. - Author unknown

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. - Carl Sandburg

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. - Fred Rogers

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. - Jean-Jacques Rouseau

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. - Charles Dickens

We all must work to make the world worthy of its children. - Pablo Casals

The soul is healed by being with children. - Dostoevsky

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments: tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. - Louis Pasteur

And finally, a very sobering thought about "our children":

Our children are not going to be just "our children"--they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. - Mary Steichen Calderone

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Those men and women who desire to obtain seats in the Celestial Kingdom will find that they must battle every day. -Brigham Young

LoudmouthMormon · Profuse Pontificator

nitasmile wrote:
~"I have not yet met the man that deserves to be as happy as I can make him" ~ hanging on the door across the hall from me freshman year at BYU

Love it, love it, love it! I think I'll introduce this to my daughters when they reach a certain age.

Ros · Senior Member

Cocobeem wrote:

Those men and women who desire to obtain seats in the Celestial Kingdom will find that they must battle every day. -Brigham Young

weirdface Every day?? Every!?!

What if i lock myself in my room, watch movies all day, painting my toenails while my husband stuffs food under the door.

Then what?? Am I toast??

Or...wait...he didn't say we had to win the battle everyday, only fight it...

...okay then....

Ros · Senior Member

Roper, you're a wise man. I'm glad you are willing to share you're wisdom by teaching our future...

We need more like you.

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

Ros, I wish more of my profs in graduate school would share your delusions--I'm not wise, I'm just good at plagiarizing.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I really liked this one from this month's Home teaching message by President Hinckley:

"It is so obvious that the great good and the terrible evil in the world today are the sweet and the bitter fruits of the rearing of yesterdays children. As we train a new generation, so will the world be in a few years. If you are worried about the future, then look to the upbringing of your children."

And this quote he used by E.T. Sullivan:

E. T. Sullivan once wrote these interesting words: When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesnt stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home and of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mothers heart, and she puts it into the babys mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies.1

And those babies, I should like to add, will become forces for good or ill, depending in large measure on how they are reared. The Lord, without equivocation, has declared, I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth (D&C 93:40).

If you hometeach anyone with kids this month, PUHLEEEAZE try to get out and do it... I know it's tough with the Holidays, but this month's message is priceless... including four steps for parents of children to consider...

--Ray

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

Ray, I too was impressed with the message we were given when our HTers came. (moved... See rayb's comment below).

-- Edited by PollyAnna at 14:38, 2007-12-14

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

great questions, polly. I moved them outta this thread to a new one... I'll continue that discussion there. :)

--Ray

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Ros wrote:

Cocobeem wrote:

Those men and women who desire to obtain seats in the Celestial Kingdom will find that they must battle every day. -Brigham Young

Every day?? Every!?!

What if i lock myself in my room, watch movies all day, painting my toenails while my husband stuffs food under the door.

Then what?? Am I toast??

Or...wait...he didn't say we had to win the battle everyday, only fight it...

...okay then....

I console myself with the fact that I must be so wise and powerful, Satan really must view me as a huge threat to his kingdom, or else he'd leave me alone.

But yes, personally I find when I'm trying my best, this becomes more and more true. If I'm a slacker, Satan knows he's got me anyway.