A Thought For Today -- Packet 12
1. “A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.”
Wilson Mizner, God’s Little Devotional for Graduates, p. 260
2. “As we progress and become more like the Savior, we can strengthen every group with whom we associate, including families and friends.”
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin (April 1998 Gen. Conf.)
3. “Character is what you are in the dark.”
Dwight L. Moody
4. “Discipline weighs ounces----Regret weighs a ton.”
Jim Rohn
5. “Don’t let good things crowd out what is ESSENTIAL.”
Elder Richard G. Scott (April 1997 CR)
6. “Happiness is a by product of making someone else happy.”
Gretta Brooker Palmer
7. “He who limps is also walking.”
8. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.”
Henry Ward Beecher
9. “I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.”
Lance Armstrong
10. “I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.”
Nietzche
11. “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison
12. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
13. “In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.”
Dorothea Dix
14. “It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin or revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.”
W. Eugene Hansen, CR Oct. 1989
15. “It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.”
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
16. “Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.”
David O. McKay
17. “Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it only once.”
Lillian Dickson, God’s Little Devotional for Graduates, p. 188
18. “Life is not about finding yourself—it’s about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
19. “Many receive advice----only the wise profit by it.”
Syrus
20. “Men will spend their health getting wealth; then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.”
Mike Murdock, God’s Little Devotional for Graduates, p. 284
21. “No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the existence of that goodness.”
Phillips Brooks
22. “Offer daily to be of use to the Lord.”
Kate L. Kirkham, BYU Dev., April 12, 1994
23. “Our minds can become veritable junk heaps with dirty, cast-off ideas that accumulate there little by little. Years ago I put up some signs in my mind. They are very clearly printed and simply read: ‘No Trespassing,’ ‘No dumping allowed.’ .....I do not want my mind to be a dumping place for shabby ideas or thoughts, for disappointments, bitterness, envy, shame, hatred, worry, grief, or jealousy.”
Boyd K. Packer (CR Oct. 1977)
24. “People like you----not so much for what you are, but for the way you make them feel when they are near you.”
25. “Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts.”
26. “Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.”
Earl Nightingale
27. “The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
Benjamin Disraeli (quoted in Readers Digest Quotable Quotes, Nov. 1997, p. 61)
28. “The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.”
29. “This generation will be known as those who trash the treasures and treasure the trash.”
Truman Madsen
30. “We first make our habits and then our habits make us.”
John Dryden
31. “We too often love things and use people, when we should be using things and loving people.”
32. “What do we live for----if not to make the world less difficult for each other?”
33. “What we do with what happens to us is more important than what happens to us.”
Marvin J. Ashton
34. “When one teaches, two learn.”
Robert Half
35. “You are the fellow that has to decide....Whether you’ll do it or toss it aside...Whether you’ll try for the goal that’s afar...Or just be contented to stay where you are.”
Edgar A. Guest “You”
36. “You can accomplish more in one hour with God than one lifetime without Him.”
(God’s Little Devotional for Graduates, p. 134)
37. “You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.”
Malcolm Forbes
38. “You know...you can start the day over at any time you’d like.”
Patty Sheen, Stage Manager, Good Morning America)
39. “You never can tell when you do an act, just what the result will be;
for with every deed, you are sowing a seed---though its harvest you may never see.”
40. “You never know how soon it may be too late.”