Attitude

LDS Quotes on Attitude

“Don’t be so heavenly minded that you are of no earthly good. Sometimes we work overtime making the gospel of Jesus Christ miserable to live. Let your life be your trumpet.”

Rand Packer  |  BYU Education Week, August 1992

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“I am satisfied that if we would look for the virtues in one another and not the vices, there would be much more of happiness in the homes of our people. There would be far less of divorce, much less of infidelity, much less of anger and rancor and quarreling. There would be more of forgiveness, more of love, more of peace, more of happiness. This is as the Lord would have it.”

Gordon B. Hinckley  |  Living Worthy of the Girl You Will Someday Marry

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“(Cheerfulness is) a deep trust in God’s unfolding purposes—not only for all of mankind, but for each of us as individuals.”

Elder Neal A. Maxwell  |  “But a Few Days” (address given to CES Religious Educators, Sept. 10, 1982), 4.

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“Willingness to experience difficult thoughts, feelings, and experiences is put in the service of our values. This is what makes willingness different from wallowing”

Luoma, J. B., Hayes  |  S. C., & Walser, R. D. (2007). Learning ACT: An acceptance & commitment therapy skills-training manual for therapists. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

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“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. He who has conquered fear has conquered failure.”

James Allen  |  As a Man Thinketh

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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

Winston Churchill

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“If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

Henry Ford

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“Nothing will work unless you do.”

Maya Angelou

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“Being mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how we view those who mistreat us.”

James L. Ferrell  |  The Peacegiver: How Christ Offers to Heal Our Hearts and Homes

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“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw  |  Mrs. Warren’s Profession, in Plays by George Bernard Shaw, New York: New American Library, 1960, p. 82.

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