A Thought For Today  --  Packet 4:
     

    l.    "Your Attitude is contagious.....Is yours worth catching?"
     

    2.   "Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbors, and let
            every New Year find you a better man."
                          --Benjamin Franklin--
     

    3.   "Character is much easier kept than recovered."
                            --Thomas Paine--
     

    4.   "Don't be down on that you're not up on."
                                 --Harold B. Lee --
     

    5.   "Don't try to live too many days at a time."
                             --Harold B. Lee --
     

    6.   "Every man complains of his memory, but no man complains of
            his  judgement."
                                                      --Author Unknown--
     

    7.   "Every man gives his life for what he believes.  Every woman gives
            her life for what she believes.  Sometimes people believe in little
            or nothing and yet they give their lives to that little or nothing.  One
            life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it, and then
            it's gone.  But to surrender what you are and to live without belief
            is more terrible than dying, even more terrible than dying young."

                                                      --Joan of Arc--
     

    8.   "Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him.  But a
            day comes when he begins to care that he does not  cheat his
            neighbor.  Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into
            a chariot of the sun."
                                                          --Ralph Waldo Emerson
     

    9.   "Families will experience different types of stress within  and
            without their households.  In major trauma, most  families
            have  resources that are brought together to help overcome
            the immediate problem.  But it's often life's daily  stresses that
            add up, related or unrelated to a major event.
     

    10.  "Fix it up,   Wear it out.   Make it do,   or do without."

                                     --old pioneer adage--
     

    11.  "Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off
             your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster,
             and be much happier in the process."
                                                                                              --Zig Ziglar--
     

    12.   "GRATITUDE is twin sister to humility;  PRIDE is foe to  both."

                                         --James E. Talmage--
     

    13.   "Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the  intangible."

                                             --William George Jordan--
     

    14.   "He who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants
              kindness gathers love."
                                                                           --Richard Brooks—
     

    15.   "Housework is what women do that nobody notices until they
              don't do it."
                                                            --Author unknown--
     

    16.    "How you spend your hours equals who you are today."

                           --Dr. Stephen Bavolek, Psychologist--
     

    17.   "I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world.
              It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.
              The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated
              goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential
              acts."
                                                --Gordon B. Hinckley--
     

    18.   "I place economy among the first and most important virtues,
              and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.  To
              preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load
              us with perpetual debt.  We must make our choice between
              economy and liberty and profusion and servitude."

                                               --Thomas Jefferson--
     

    19.   "If a teacher influences but one, his influence never stops."
     

    20.   "If I am not happy with me, other people suffer."

                                 --Neal A. Maxwell--
     

    21.   "If the nation is living within its income, its credit is good.  If
              in some crisis it lives beyond its income for a year or two, it
              can usually borrow temporarily on reasonable terms.  But if,
              like the spendthrift, it throws descretion to the winds, is willing
              to make no sacrifice at all in spending, extends its taxing up to
              the limit of the people's power to pay, and continues to pile up
             deficits, it is on the road to bankruptcy."
                                                                                       --Franklin D. Roosevelt--
     

    22.   "If the world learned from history, how different both would
              be."
                                                    --Arnold Glasow--
     

    23.   "If you don't believe in yourself, neither will anyone  else."

                                        --Anne L. Horton, Ph.D.--
     

    24.   "It must be the aim of education to teach the citizen that he
              must first of all rule himself."

                                            --Winthrop A. Aldrich--
     

    25.   "It's good to have money and the things that money can buy,
              but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure
              you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."

                                          --George Horace Lorimer--
     

    26.   "Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no
              ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be
              evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a
              continual Christmas."
                                                                     --Benjamin Franklin--
     

    27.    Mr. Rogers likes you just the way you are.
     

    28.   "Never underestimate the impact of one good deed...it  creates
              a ripple effect."
     

    29.   "One of the things the news media does very well is to make a
              minority look like a majority."
                                                                           --Author unknown--
     

    30.   "Our future is a product of our past...so be very careful what you
              do in your past."
                                                                   --Russell M. Ballard--
     

    31.   "People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated."

                                           --Spencer W. Kimball--
     

    32.   "Physically fit people are more intellectually inclined,
              emotionally stable, composed, self-confident, easy-going
              and relaxed."
                                                --A. H. Ismail, Purdue University--
     

    33.   "Reputation through a thousand years may depend on the
              conduct of a single moment."
     

    34.   "Show courtesy to others, not because they are gentlemen
              but because you are."
     

    35.   "Success is never final."                        --Author unknown--
     

    36.   "The big givers are the big getters."
     

    37.   "The first step in raising positive kids is to become a
              positive parent."

             --Zig Ziglar, book:  Raising  Positive Kids in a Negative World.
     

    38.   "The manner of jesting ought not to be extravagant or
               immoderate, but refined and witty...There are, generally
               speaking, two sorts of jests:  the one, coarse, rude,
               vicious, indecent; the other polite, refined, clever, witty
               (which), if well timed, is becoming to the most dignified
               person.  The other is unfit for any gentleman."

                                                      --Cicero--
     

    39.   "The greatest waste in the world is the difference between
              what we are and what we could be."
                                                                                         --John Grimes--
     

    40.   "The most important thing a father can do for his children is
              to love their mother, and the most important thing a mother
              can do for her children is to love their father."
     

    41.   "The only way to stretch your future is to stretch your
               present."
                                                      --Old Adage--
     

    42.   "The past is to learn from and not to live in."

                                   --Richard L. Evans--
     

    43.   "The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can
               carry away from it."
                                                                       --James Bryce--
     

    44.   "There's no limit to the good that could be done in the
               world.....if nobody cared who got the credit."
     

    45.   "Usually our criticism of others is not because they have faults,
              but because their faults are different than ours."

                                                 --Roger Eastman--
     

    46.   "Virtually every issue that we deal with, be it education...be it
               human services or gang problems or drugs, we find STRONG
               FAMILIES the ultimate solution."

                                               --Governor Mike Leavitt--
     

    47.   "We have been so anxious to give our children what we didn't
               have that we have neglected to give them what we did have."

                                                     --Author Unknown--
     

    48.   "We must never become so busy slapping at mosquitoes that
               we walk into the quicksand."
                                                                             --Richard L. Evans--
     

    49.   "We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and
              'Rithmetic, a fourth----RESPONSIBILITY."

                                        --President Herbert Hoover--

    50.   "We all have sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes  of
               others!"
                                                     --Larochefoucauld--
     

    51.   "We shall continue to have crime until our neighbor's
               problems are as important to us as they are to him."

                                                  --Voltaire--
     

    52.    "We've learned to dress for success, to speak for success. Now
               we need to learn how to behave for success."

                                     --Marjabelle Young Stewart--
     

    53.   "What we shall be, we are becoming."                    --Old Proverb--
     

    54.   "Whatever I did not know, I was not ashamed to inquire
               about, so I acquired knowledge."

                                      --Ancient Persian Philosopher--
     

    55.   "You cannot run away from a weakness.  You must sometime
               fight it out or perish.  And if that be so, why not now
               and where you stand?"
                                                                      --Robert Louis Stevenson--
     

    56.   "You don't find time----You make it!"
     

    57.   "You must give some time to your fellow men.  Even if it's a
               little thing, do something for those who have need of help,
               something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing
               it."
                                                  --Albert Schweitzer--
     

    58.   "Your children will become what you are; so be what you want
               them to be."
                                                             --David Bly--