“Do not expect to be perfect at once. If you do, you will be disappointed. Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.”
– Lorenzo Snow
“None of us will become perfect in a day or a month or a year. We will not accomplish it in a lifetime, but we can begin now, starting with our more obvious weaknesses and gradually converting them into strengths.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
“When you climb up a ladder, you must begin at the bottom and ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top; and so it is with the principles of the Gospel– you must begin with the first, and go on until you learn all the principles of exaltation. But it will be a great while after you have passed through the veil before you will have learned them. It will be a great work to learn our salvation and exaltation even beyond the grave.”
– Joseph Smith
“If we don’t change direction, we will arrive at where we’re going.”
– Mark E. Peterson
“The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good, good men better, and to change human nature.”
– David O. McKay
“He (God) Gives a little to his humble followers today, and if they improve upon it, tomorrow he will give them a little more. He does not add to that which they do not improve upon, but they are required to continually improve upon the knowledge they already possess, and thus obtain a store of wisdom.”
– Brigham Young
“We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.”
– Richard G. Scott
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
– Napoleon Hill*
“It is the celestial glory which we seek. It is in the presence of God we desire to dwell. It is a forever family in which we want membership. Such blessings are earned through a lifetime of striving, seeking, repenting, and finally succeeding.”
– Thomas S. Monson
“If today you are a little better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough.”
– David A. Bednar
“God, as our loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.”
– Neal A. Maxwell
