588 Quotes by Thomas S. Monson

We can’t direct the wind but we can adjust the sail.

Our Father’s commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.

Have times really changed? Don’t we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don’t we today, as always, need God’s divine protecting care? Don’t we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don’t take counsel of your fears.

We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the ‘thick of thin things.’ In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.

In the private sanctuary of one’s own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

Can we not appreciate that our very business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves? To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays, to bear our trials more beautifully than we ever dreamed we could, to give as we have never given, to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever – this is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves.