Browsing Quotes With Tag: progression (102)
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The man who never makes mistakes loses a great many chances to learn something.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Speaker: SocratesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man who is young in age may still be old and experienced, if he has lost no time.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity. When a man wages war against his weakness, this is the most holy war he can ever enter… and the joy of accomplishment is the most exquisite.
Speaker: Marion G. RomneyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Adversity is the midwife of genius.
Speaker: Napoleon BonapartePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Unless a man undertakes more than he can possibly do, he will never do all that he can.
Speaker: Henry FordPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The highest possible reward for any man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
Speaker: John RuskinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have great talents, industriousness will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies.
Speaker: Samuel SmilesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Speaker: George EliotPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
Speaker: John RayPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The Lord doesn’t ask about our inabilities or abilities. He only asks about our availabilities. If we show our dependability, He will help us in our capability.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If we have removable obstacles in our way and don’t remove them, we won’t progress
Speaker: Kari OlsenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the techniques of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When one learns to master the principles of setting a goal, he will then be able to make a great difference in the results he attains in this life.
Speaker: M. Russell BallardPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If we start right, it is easy to go right all the time. But, if we start wrong, we may go wrong, and it will be a hard matter to get right.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Somehow the Latter-Day Saints have the mistaken notion that in the end, when the day comes that the Lord will make them gods or goddesses, that someone lays their hands on their heads and, as it were, says to them, “You have now all that you need to be a God – go ahead“– this is not true. All that you need to be a God is in you right now. Your job is to take those crude elements within you and refine them.
Speaker: James E. TalmagePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The awakening of the conscience is the grandeur of the soul.
Speaker: Charles A. CallisPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
…If you wish to go where God is, you must be like God, or possess the principles which God possesses, for if we are not drawing towards God in principle, we are going away from Him and drawing towards the devil.
Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You make about 3 million mistakes, then you’re done.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is our time to be perfect. We get a chance to be better than we are; we’d better not let it pass us by.
Speaker: Robert BurtonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!