If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.
George H. Brimhall (1852-1932), former president, Brigham Young University
The future is as bright as your faith.
Thomas S. Monson, “Be of Good Cheer,” April 2009 General Conference
You can’t be right by doing wrong; you can’t be wrong by doing right. “Pathways to Perfection,” April General Conference 2002
…the easy way materially usually is not the best way spiritually.
Dallin H. Oaks, Adversity, Ensign, July 1998
All progress in spiritual things is conditioned upon the prior attainment of humility.
Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, p. 370
The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you and you will find it if you exercise faith.
Henry B. Eyring, General Young Women’s Broadcast, March 29, 2008
Men cannot really long rest content with mediocrity once they see excellence is within their reach.
Thomas S. Monson, “Anxiously Engaged,” October Conference, 2004
I know the Lord lives. I know that He loves us. I know that apart from HIm no one can success, but as a partner with HIm, no one can fail. Ezra Taft Benson, “Think on Christ,” Ensign, March 1989
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill