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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.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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Growth Hard Work Wasted
We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.
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Creature Defeat Inspirational Talk Thinking Victory Word
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
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
Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.
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Creation Honesty Hurt Kind
You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
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Best Blessing Failure Result Stand Yourself
If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you.
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Bed Early Yourself
Work will cure your grief. Serve others.
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Cure Grief Work Yourself
There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.
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Family Happiness Marriage Oneself Prayer Respect
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
I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.
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Consequence Empty Program Pursuit Time Wonderful
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
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
There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.
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Challenge Difficult Faith God Greatness Obstacle
Gratitude is a sign of maturity, Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
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Courtesy Gratitude Maturity Property Right
I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?
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Challenge Children Divine Nature Ourselves Rise
Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.
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Believe Encouragement Happiness Work
We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills become great mountains of contention.
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Greatness Ourselves Speak Trouble Voice
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
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
God will always make a way where there is no way.
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God One Liner Way
Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.
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Coporation Greatness Home Impression Society Stand Woman
By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
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Complain Ourselves See Thinking
Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.
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Better Creation Feeling Friendship Gratitude Strength Woman Wonderful
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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Choice Determination Direction Live Ourselves
Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.
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Average Better Capability Yourself

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