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Thomas S. Monson Quotes | Quotes said by Thomas S. Monson

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #1

    Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.


  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #2

    Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #3

    Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #4

    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 one's life falls into a state of neglect.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #5

    By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #6

    Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #7

    Choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #8

    Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #9

    Choose your love, Love your choice.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #10

    Choose your love. Love your choice.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #11

    Chose your love, love your choice.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #12

    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.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #13

    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.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #14

    Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #15

    Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #16

    Don't save things for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #17

    Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #18

    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.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #19

    Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #20

    Having gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not deliver it.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #21

    I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #22

    I think one of the sweetest lessons taught by the Prophet, and yet one of the saddest, occurred close to the time of his death. He was required to leave his plan and vision of the Rocky Mountains and give himself up to face a court of supposed justice.

    These are his words: 'I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men' (D&C 135:4). That statement of the Prophet teaches us obedience to law and the importance of having a clear conscience toward God and toward our fellowmen. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught these principles--by example.

    There was to be one great final lesson before his mortal life ended. He was incarcerated in Carthage Jail with his brother Hyrum, with John Taylor, and with Willard Richards. The angry mob stormed the jail; they came up the stairway, blasphemous in their cursing, heavily armed, and began to fire at will. Hyrum was hit and died. John Taylor took several balls of fire within his bosom. The Prophet Joseph, with his pistol in hand, was attempting to defend his life and that of his brethren, and yet he could tell from the pounding on the door that this mob would storm that door and would kill John Taylor and Willard Richards in an attempt to kill him.

    And so his last great act here upon the earth was to leave the door and lead Willard Richards to safety, throw the gun on the floor, and go to the window, that they might see him, that the attention of this ruthless mob might be focused upon him rather than the others. Joseph Smith gave his life. Willard Richards was spared, and John Taylor recovered from his wounds.

    'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends' (John 15:13). The Prophet Joseph Smith taught us love--by example.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #23

    I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #24

    In this marvelous dispensation of the fulness of times, our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #25

    It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #26

    Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with success. There are those games which we lose, those races in which we finish last, and those promotions which never come. Such experiences provide an opportunity for us to show our determination and to rise above disappointment.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #27

    Man has made remarkable strides in conquering outer space, but how futile have been his efforts in conquering inner space- the space in our hearts and minds of men.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #28

    May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #29

    May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

  • Thomas S. Monson Quote #30

    May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, no, courage to say, yes, for courage counts.

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