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“Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
― Albert Einstein

“The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel. Therefore the devil has concentrated, and to a large extent successfully, in neutralizing much of the priesthood. He has reduced them to Sleeping Giants.”
― Ezra Taft Benson

“Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.”
― Ezra Taft Benson

“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”
― Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.”
― Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa

“Things we cannot solve, we must survive.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“There could not be a restoration of the gospel without freedom. God provided this country as the base of his operations in these the last days, a place where there would be freedom, where he could restore his gospel.”
― Ezra Taft Benson

“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.”
― Sam Levenson

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Pain is weakness leaving the body”
― USMC Development-Education Command Staff

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.”
― Muhammad Ali

“We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.”
― Neal A. Maxwell

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

“There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
― Mother Teresa

“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
― Albert Einstein

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.”
― John Ruskin