Browsing Quotes With Tag: character (187)
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Tell me what you love, and I will tell you what you are.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A fish is the last one to know that he’s wet.
Speaker: Richard I. HeatonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is so much difference between teaching the missionaries what they are to do as concentrating on what they are to be. The first will make a salesman of them. The second will create a saint.
Speaker: Boyd K. PackerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Heavenly Father wants men of passion.
Speaker: President MarvinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We judge a missionary’s success by the attributes of Christ that reflect on that missionary’s grandchildren.
Speaker: James G. AndrusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you don’t have any money in the bank, you can’t write a check on it.
Speaker: David R. StonePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience from bad judgment.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can take a pound of paper or a handshake. If you do not have integrity, you have nothing in either case.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Make every decision you contemplate pass this test: what does it do to me? What does it do for me?
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The natural man has a tendency to think only of himself – not only to place himself first, but rarely, if ever, to place anyone one else second, including God.
Speaker: Lynn G. RobbinsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing exposes our true selves more than how we treat one another in the home.
Speaker: James E. FaustPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
Speaker: James E. FaustPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Fill your minds with truth.
Fill your hearts with love.
Fill your lives with service.Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Dr. Arthur Wentworth Hewitt suggested some reasons why the good suffer as well as the wicked: ‘First: I don’t know. Second: We may not be as innocent as we think. Third: …I believe it is because He loves us so much more than He loves our happiness. How so? Well, if on a basis of strict personal return here and now, all the good were always happy and all the bad suffered disaster (instead of often quite the reverse), this would be the most subtle damnation of character imaginable.
Speaker: James E. FaustPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We cannot fake love. It must become part of us.
Speaker: John H. GrobergPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not let your children out to specialists…, but teach them by your own precept and example, by your own fireside. Be a specialist yourself in the truth.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God’s approval. Courage becomes a living and an attractive virtue when it is regarded not only as a willingness to die manfully, but also as a determination to live decently.
…Courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it.Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I believe our problems, almost every one, arise out of the homes of the people. If there is to be reformation, if there is to be a change, if there is to be a return to the old and sacred values, it must begin in the home.
It is here that truth is learned, that integrity is cultivated, that self-discipline is instilled, and that love is nurtured.Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Recognize that enduring happiness comes from what you are, not from what you have.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People will come to know the truth to the degree that they are true to the truth.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!