L. Tom Perry
One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.Collection: Weakness
You are not competing with anyone else. You are only competing with yourself to do the best with whatever you have received.Collection: Competing
We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.Collection: Voice
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.Collection: Good Life
If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?Collection: Bars
The choices you make will make all of the difference in what you want to achieve.Collection: Differences
Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.Collection: Enduring To The End
Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.Collection: Soul
Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.Collection: Children
Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.Collection: Keys
Have more confidence in yourself than allowing your decisions to happen just by chance.Collection: Justice
How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.Collection: Encouragement
If you will respond to the invitation to share your beliefs and feelings about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, a spirit of love and a spirit of courage will be your constant companion.Collection: Jesus
The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.Collection: Creation
Today's complexities demand greater simplicity.Collection: Simplicity
When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.Collection: Teaching
Have you ever thought of yourself as a junior angel crowned with glory and honor? Every one of our Father in Heaven's children is great in His sight. If the Lord sees greatness in you, how then should you see yourself?Collection: Children
Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?Collection: Mother
I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.Collection: Believe
Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.Collection: Our Actions
Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one book read aloud, one song, and one family meal at a time. They know that the influence of righteous, conscientious, persistent, daily parenting is among the most powerful and sustaining forces for good in the world. The health of any society, the happiness of its people, their prosperity, and their peace all find common roots in the teaching of children in the home.Collection: Song
We must not pick and choose which commandments we think are important to keep but acknowledge all of God’s commandments. We must stand firm and steadfast, having perfect confidence in the Lord’s consistency and perfect trust in His promises.Collection: Thinking
The only shortage we have today is the shortage we have between our own two ears.Collection: Two
If I keep my promises to the Lord, He will always keep His promises to me. He [will] always fulfill His end of the bargain—and much, much more—if I fulfill mine.Collection: Promise
Just as the pioneers made the desert blossom as a rose, so too our lives and families will blossom if we follow their example and embrace their traditions. Yes, pioneer faith is needed as much in the world today as in any period of time. Once again, we need to know that heritage. We need to teach it, we need to be proud of it, and we need to preserve it.Collection: Rose
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments. May our testimonies ever grow stronger as we seek to find the fountain of eternal truth. May the brotherhood that exists in our quorum be of comfort and strength and security as we pass through this mortal part of our existence. May the joy of gospel service ever abide in our hearts as we go forward to fulfill our duties and responsibilities as servants in our Father in Heaven's kingdom.Collection: Father
God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always deprive us of His blessings. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. They are immutable and unchanging.Collection: Blessing
The most powerful teaching a child will ever receive will come from concerned and righteous fathers and mothers.Collection: Mother
I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let us follow it in modesty. The most precious thing that a girl has is her modesty and if she preserves this in dress, in speech, in action, it will arm, and protect her as nothing else will. But let her lose her modesty, and she becomes a victim of those who pursue her, as the hare is of the hound; and she will not be able to stand unless she preserves her modesty.Collection: Girl
What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.Collection: Legacy
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.Collection: Character
A family needs a father to anchor it.Collection: Father
One of the better ways to simplify our lives is to follow the counsel we have so often received to live within our income, stay out of debt, and save for a rainy day. We should practice and increase our habits of thrift, industry, economy, and frugality. Members of a well-managed family do not pay interest; they earn it.Collection: Rainy Day
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First, make the commitment to erase such words from your vocabulary. Next, if you slip and say a swear word or a substitute word, mentally reconstruct the sentence without the vulgarity or substitute word and repeat the new sentence aloud. Eventually you will develop a non-vulgar speech habit.Collection: Commitment
Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.Collection: Determination
The service of bringing light to a troubled world must never end.Collection: Light
Acquire and store a reserve of food and supplies that will sustain life. ... As long as I can remember, we have been taught to prepare for the future and to obtain a years supply of necessities. I would guess that the years of plenty have almost universally caused us to set aside this counsel. I believe the time to disregard this counsel is over. With events in the world today, it must be considered with all seriousness.Collection: Believe
Start now to create a plan if you don't already have one, or update your present plan. Watch for best buys that will fit into your year's supply. We are not in a situation that requires panic buying, but we do need to be careful in purchasing and rotating the storage that we're putting away. The instability in the world today makes it imperative that we take heed of the counsel and prepare for the future.Collection: Years
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to receive the powers of heaven. Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge and power and God’s unlimited wisdom and omnipotence.Collection: Strong
Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.Collection: Inspirational
Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive.Collection: Strong
Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another. These events would include blessings of children, baptisms, other priesthood ordinances, graduations, missionary farewells, homecomings, and, of course, marriages. Sharing these occasions as a family will help us build a foundation established upon a rock.Collection: Love
In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities.Collection: Priorities
The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.Collection: Greatest Treasure
In our hearts do we feel a sense of gratitude and devotion to the Father? Are we of one heart with Him to whom we owe everything? The test of our devotion to the Lord seems to be the way we serve Him.Collection: Gratitude
Embedded in the gospel of Jesus Christ there are eternal principles and truths that will last far longer than the principles of building ships and roofs. You and I, as members of the Lord's true Church, have special access and insight into these eternal principles and truths, especially when we listen to the Spirit for individual guidance and hear the prophet's voice as he declares the will of God to the members of the Church. You and I both know how important these eternal principles and truths are in our lives.Collection: Jesus
Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.Collection: Children
What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.Collection: Army
What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal!Collection: Marriage And Family
The joining together of a man and a woman to be legally and lawfully wed not only is preparation for future generations to inherit the earth, but it also brings the greatest joy and satisfaction that can be found in this mortal experience.Collection: Men