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We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future.
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Future Goodness Past Perspective
You can’t plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.
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Imagination Mindset Simplicity Yourself
Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.
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Prayer Work Yourself
We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the same time, we can bring in a touch of humor now and again. If the time ever comes when we can’t smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.
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Better Humor Live Sadness Serious Time Touch
Do not let fear overcome your efforts.
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Effort Fear Yourself
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
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Enjoyment Fun Laughter Live Wisdom
Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.
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Happiness Joy Leadership Lonely Peace Prayer Road Strength Walk
I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.
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Believe Count Goodness Greatness Principle Small
Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.
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Children Family Love Togetherness Yourself
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.
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Afraid Challenge Course Faith Greatness Hurt Ourselves
It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership…. By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.
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Carry Divorce Leadership Possible Privacy True Wisdom
Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.
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Creation Honesty Hurt Kind
You must ask for God’s help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.
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Failure Forgiveness God Try Yourself
Look for the Sunlight through the Clouds.
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Cloud Hard Time Light Sight Sun
There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.
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Dull Negative Personality
In all this world there is no substitute for personal integrity. It includes honor. It includes performance. It includes keeping one’s word. It includes doing what is right regardless of the circumstances
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Circumstance Personal Right Substitution World
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.
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Criticism Destroy Family Institution Nation
A truly educated man never ceases to learn.
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Education Learning Man True
Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.
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Happiness Himself Man Offend Way
I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That’s much better than watching television, much better. They won’t get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.
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Bad Better Children Exception Hope Reading Thinking
I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.
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Better Blessing Busy Life Live Yourself
No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the lives of those within our circle of influence.
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Improvement Influence Knowledge Live Old Ourselves Progress Strength Wisdom
Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.
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Different Earth Humble Live Ourselves Recognition See
Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.
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God Language Peace Quiet Talk
If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel.
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God Hard Religious Stand
Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Life Purpose Smile Yourself
Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.
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Book Company Effort Friendship Willing

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