Richard L. Evans Quotes
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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
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What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!
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This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?
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Live so as to have a quiet conscience.
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We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.
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There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.
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We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
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Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
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We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.
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Your direction is more important than your speed.
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Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.
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Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.
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Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.
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Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done.
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A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.
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Enjoy life while it is happening.
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In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."
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Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But with it come quiet thoughts and quickened memories. And what else shall a man do except become reconciled? What purpose does he serve by fighting what he cannot touch or by brooding upon what he cannot change?
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We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion.