Quotes from Thomas Monson
Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.
- Thomas Monson
We tend to become like those whom we admire.
- Thomas Monson
I testify that this work in which we're engaged is the Lord's work. I've felt His sustaining influence.
- Thomas Monson
Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.
- Thomas Monson
Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.
- Thomas Monson
On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
- Thomas Monson
Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.
- Thomas Monson
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.
- Thomas Monson
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal
- Thomas Monson
Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.
- Thomas Monson
Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.
- Thomas Monson
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
- Thomas Monson