Don't Have Empty Yesterdays

I read the obituaries every day,” he confided. “When you see people your own age afflicted and experiencing life-threatening illnesses, I think it prompts you to apply to yourself the philosophy, ‘I want to do the best I know how to do every day.’ Someone said, ‘Live only in the past, and you’ll have a lot of empty yesterdays tomorrow.’ (President Monson, Church News, August 15, 2015)

Preparing for Future Callings

“I’m a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we’re going to encounter in our own period of service.” (President Monson, Church News, Aug 15, 2015)

Proximity Priniciple

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt

Setting Goals

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee

Final Exam Time

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Last Lectures

Some of the most classic one line sermons come from the last lectures of the prophets. For example, Jacob in the Book of Mormon said "O be wise; what can I say more?" (verse 12 of Jacob 6) In other words, Be Wise - What more can I say?

Nephi in his last words said "for thus hath the Lord commanded me, and I must obey." (verse 15, 2 Ne. 33)

Statistics

The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
- Evan Esar