The cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYKeep your families close together, and love and honor your children.
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Try a little harder to be a little better.
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Love is like the North Star. In a changing world, it’s always constant.
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The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage.
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You have not failed until you quit trying.
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Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
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God will always make a way where there is no way.
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The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.
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He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.
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You must ask for God’s help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.
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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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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.
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Whatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.
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It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future.
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Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.
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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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Never assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private place and speak with Him.
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You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
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Father forgive us, for we do not what we know.
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Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.
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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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Let your first interest be in your home. The baby you hold in your arms will grow quickly as the sunrise and the sunset of the rushing days.
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In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
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Work will cure your grief. Serve others.
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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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Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.
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