Quotes by Thomas S. Monson

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment.

By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

Cooperativeness is not so much learning how to get along with others as taking the kinks out of ourselves, so that others can get along with us.

Chose your love, love your choice.

Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, How many positions did you hold, but rather, How many people did you help?

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy. We do not live alone - in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbors wretchedness. Love they neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.

Balanced service is a virtue to be cherished. There is to be time in our life to serve God, to serve our family, to serve our country and community, to serve our employer. Wise persons budget available time so that no significant area of ones life falls into a state of neglect.

The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.

Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guidelines and commandments to help ensure our spiritual safety so that we might successfully navigate this often-treacherous mortal existence and return eventually to our Heavenly Father (Obedience Brings Blessings, April 2013 General Conference).

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Dont take counsel of your fears.

Perhaps the surest test of an individuals integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

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 worlds busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

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.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Saviors love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart - and our neighbors as ourselves.