"Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just insures that the hardest part will be left when you're most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on."
"Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace."
Judith Martin
William F. Scolavino
Gordon B. Hinckley, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, 374
Gordon B. Hinckley, "My Testimony," Ensign, Nov. 1993, 52
"My brothers and sisters, the day for carrying the gospel to ever more places and people is here and now. We must come to think of our obligation to share the message rather than of our own convenience. Calls from the Lord are seldom convenient. The time is here when sacrifice must become an even more important element in the Church."
"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. "
"Under the sacred and compelling trust we have as members of the Church of Jesus Christ, oursis a work of redemption, of lifting and saving those who need help. Ours is a task of raising the sights of those of our people who fail to realize the great potential that lies within them. Ours is the responsibility of building self-reliance, of encouraging and cultivating happy homes where fathers and mothers love and respect one another and children grow in an atmosphere of peace and affection and appreciation."
Gordon B. Hinckley, "What This Work Is All About," Ensign, Aug. 2002, 3
Norman Vincent Peale
"I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound capacity for blessing the lives of others. More often than not, it is not on the stage with some public pronouncement but in your example of righteousness and the countless gentle acts of love and kindness done so willingly, so often on a one-to-one basis."
(James E. Faust, "You Are All Heaven Sent," Ensign, Nov. 2002, 111-12)
"The decision to change one's life and come unto Christ is, perhaps, the most important decision of mortality. Such a dramatic change is taking place daily throughout the world."
"All of us who are under the baptismal covenant have promised to offer the gospel to others (see D&C 88:81; Mosiah 18:9)."
(Henry B. Eyring, "A Child and a Disciple," Ensign, May 2003, 29)
M. Russell Ballard, "Now Is the Time," Ensign, Nov. 2000, 76