Richard L. Evans
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.Collection: Courage
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.Collection: Inspirational
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.Collection: Life
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
Your direction is more important than your speed.Collection: Important
Life moves in one direction only - and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now- and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were - but from where we are.Collection: Moving
Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.Collection: Responsibility
A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.Collection: Children
May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.Collection: May
It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background and belief to enjoy the company of each other in many ways. Indeed, a diversity of friendships is one of life's real enrichments. To learn of the goodness of those who are unlike-their worth, their sincerity, their good hearts, their good minds, their good company-is rich and rewarding. It is wonderful to have a wide range of choice friends who can be counted on, friends who can be enjoyed and loved and trusted. Such is the meaning of friendship.Collection: Real
One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.Collection: Blessed
It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.Collection: Procrastination
He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.Collection: Great Friend
There must be a priority of values in all our lives.Collection: Life
We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.Collection: Running
What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!Collection: Motivational
When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?Collection: Life
Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.Collection: Marriage
Enjoy life while it is happening.Collection: Life
We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.Collection: Generosity
If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested.Collection: Temptation
May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.Collection: Life
We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.Collection: Thinking
Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.Collection: Sleep
This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?Collection: Life
There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.Collection: Wise
Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.Collection: Faith
Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!Collection: Gratitude
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.Collection: Temptation
Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.Collection: Character
A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.Collection: Boys
It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.Collection: Life
Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance....and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen.Collection: Children
The test of love is in how we live.Collection: Love Is
What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.Collection: Children
Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.Collection: People
Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.Collection: Happiness
There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.Collection: Life
May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we neglect the divine . . . and give ourselves over wholly to the human," he said, "we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism. . . . True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it."Collection: Life
But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.Collection: Life
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.Collection: Courage
Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.Collection: Stopping
The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?Collection: Listening
Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.Collection: Men
All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp...ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.Collection: Caring
We have to trust the Lord God for so many things, and it is but one thing more to trust him in the issues of life and death, and to accept the fact that his plans and promises and purposes transcend the bounds of this world and of this life. With such faith the years are kind, and peace and reconciliation do come to those who have laid to rest their loved ones - who, even in death, are not far removed from us, and of whom our Father in heaven will be mindful until we meet again even as we are mindful of our own children.Collection: Peace
Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).Collection: Love
Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.Collection: Love
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.Collection: Family