Browsing Quotes With Tag: progression (102)
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A religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation…. It [is] through this sacrifice, and this only, that God has ordained that men should enjoy eternal life.”
Source: Lectures on Faith (1985), 69Posted: 27 Jun 2012 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All eternal truth must be understood in the context of a firm testimony of the Savior. Otherwise we miss the power of the example of the greatest teacher the world has ever known.
Likewise, many of us have attained a level of obedience in which we consistently keep the letter of the law; we commit no grievous sins. As we look about us, we see that we do no worse than our neighbors, and we feel satisfied, comfortable. We are compatible with others on our plateau partway up the mountain. We like this scenic ledge where we have all the “dos and don’ts” under control.
President Harold B. Lee admonished us, “Walk to the edge of the light, and perhaps a few steps into the darkness, and you will find that the light will appear and move ahead of you” .Speaker: Boyd K. Packer and Harold B. LeeSource: (as quoted by Boyd K. Packer, regional representatives’ seminar, 1 Apr. 1977)Posted: 27 Apr 2011 at 3:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our eternal gyroscope is set for the Celestial Kingdom. Any time we do something that takes us off that path, the gyroscope tries to correct itself. This causes stress to the spirit and that is where we get guilt or pain when we sin.
Speaker: (paraphrased) Randy Bott's class, "Teaching How to Continue the Perfecting Process w/o Being DiscourSource: Education Week 2010Posted: 27 Apr 2011 at 1:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Speaker: Bernard Mannes BaruchPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that hey do not remain the way they are.
Speaker: AugustinePosted: 25 Sep 2008 at 12:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Very often, the only person who will give you a chance will be yourself. Too many people want the status quo to remain the same, and that status quo will include you… None of us should willingly join the lowest common denominator, which in many cases turns out to be the easy road. Those with uncommon lives have moved beyond the common.
Speaker: Donald TrumpSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinSource: Why We Want You to Be RichPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is constantly giving you priceless information if you are willing to receive it, and most of the time the feedback is free.
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 9:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Intelligence is not about memorizing old answers and avoiding mistakes – behavior our school system defines as intelligent. True intelligence is about learning to solve problems in order to qualify to solve bigger problems. True intelligence is about the joy of learning rather than the fear of failing.
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Answers are about the past, and abilities are about the future
Speaker: Robert T. KiyosakiSource: Increasing Your Financial IQPosted: 20 Sep 2008 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Most endeavors are like learning to speak a foreign language: to be correct 95% of the time requires six months of concentrated effort, whereas to be correct 98% of the time requires 20-30 years. Focus on great for a few things and good enough for the rest. Perfection is a good ideal and direction to have, but recognize it for what it is: an impossible destination.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
Speaker: Frank WilczekSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is the very perfection of man, to find out his own imperfection.
Speaker: AugustineSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Speaker: Antoine de Saint-ExuperySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You live and learn. At any rate you live
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just because we have taken one step down a wrong road is no reason why we have to take two.
Speaker: Richard L. EvansPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reading is not a substitute for experience; neither is experience a substitute for reading.
Speaker: Aldous HuxleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To err is human,
To forgive takes restraint;
To forget you forgave
Is the mark of a Saint.Speaker: Suzanne DouglasPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!