Thomas S. Monson Quotes

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

Thomas S. Monson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 21, 1927 - January 2, 2018

Topics

LifeWorkWorldAdviceEnjoyYou

I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.

Joel Courtney

LoveLongActingWantRunAct

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

John Foster Dulles

FaceBrinkLookedWalked

Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.

Maynard Jackson

GoodCommunityTogetherUnityDoors

We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.

John O'Neill

PhilosophyStoneSaidNowLeaveGet

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

Amanda Lindhout

TimeDayRoadMomentsLongEasy

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

John Rawls

LifeGreatCompassionPainEvil

As big a deal as the Super Bowl is, it's not the most important thing going on in the planet.

Tony Dungy

Super BowlImportantPlanetBigDeal

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

Colin Quinn

AloneStrongFeelYouLookHand

After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.

Brandi Chastain

WorkThoughtSoccerBelievingBigger

Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.

Anne Stevenson

MeAmericanYoungMoreAlwaysPoet

I enjoyed writing for someone else's voice, but I wasn't very good at it.

Anthony Jeselnik

GoodWritingVoiceSomeoneEnjoyed

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

ChangeGreatWorldDownSpinEver

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