“If you're going through hell, keep going.”  

- Winston Churchill

He thinks it's worth the risk.

"Of course God knows what will happen if we use our freedom the wrong way. Apparently He thinks it's worth the risk." 
- C.S. Lewis

“With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ”  

- Sir Thomas Buxton

"Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike."
- Margot Fonteyn

However long and Hard the Road

"We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. 

You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. 

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory; victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival....

But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, 'Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.'"

-Winston Churchill

"I testify that you are holy, that just by being born, divinity is abiding within you, waiting to be uncovered--to be reborn." 
-Patricia Holland, "The Soul's Center"

“Just remember that the legacy is passed from heart to heart. Charity, the pure love of Christ, is part of the mighty change of heart which the Lord promises to His faithful disciples. So it is not hard to see what simple things you can and must do to pass the legacy along.” 
- Henry B. Eyring

Watching with Hope

"Perhaps watching can be painful at times, because I must acknowledge that time is passing - but not because, once passed, it's forever gone. Just like the sand that slips from the top of the globe to the glass floor below, it is not spilled or lost. It is stored.

My dad has always said that his favorite age for his children is the one they are at. I like that thought. To me, that is watching with hope.

Watching the change, and seeing what's not changing.

Watching it pass, and knowing it's not leaving.

Tasting every bite, but believing in God's everlasting covenant that the meal never ends. The food is perishable, yes, but there is more to come. And all of it, ingested, becomes a part of me." 

-Emily Halverson, "The Mother in Me"

"Our understanding of and faith in the Atonement of Jesus Christ will provide strength and capacity needed for a successful life."

- Richard G. Scott, "He Lives! All Glory to His Name!

You don't have to be pretty.

"You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female.'" 

-Erin McKean 

"We may ignore, but we can't evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."

-C.S. Lewis

I am doing a great work and cannot come down

"The Lord is seeking men like Nehemiah—faithful brethren who fulfill the oath and covenant of the priesthood. He seeks to enlist unfaltering souls who diligently go about the work of building the kingdom of God—those who, when faced with opposition and temptation, say in their hearts, 'I am doing a great work and cannot come down.'”

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "We are Doing a Great Work and Cannot Come Down"

Be nobody but yourself.

"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." 

-e e cummings

Patience

"Patience is not indifference. Actually, it means caring very much but being willing to submit to the Lord." 
-Neal A. Maxwell

"Why would the Lord expect us to be happy? Because He has borne our sorrow that we might have joy, and He blesses us when we are obedient. The Savior atoned for our sins that we might be happy." 
-Lynne G. Robbins, "True Beauty"

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost."

- Martha Graham

 

"If you hear a voice within you saying 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
-Vincent Van Gogh

"Take pride in your choices." 
-Kathleen Debenham

Lift Where You Stand

"Sometimes we do not hear the rest of what the Lord is telling us. 'Although you are worthy to serve in this position,' He may say, 'this is not my calling for you. It is my desire instead that you lift where you stand.' God knows what is best for us." 
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' " 
-Mary Anne Radmacher

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." 
-Eleanor Powell 

"What attribute should define us as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? Let us be known as a people who love God with all our heart, soul, and mind and who love our neighbor as ourselves."

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf