Some of my favorite quotes:

DAVID O. McKAY'S TEN RULES OF HAPPINESS

1. Develop yourself by self-discipline.
2. Joy comes through creation—sorrow through destruction. Every living thing can grow: Use the world wisely to realize soul growth.
3. Do things which are hard to do.
4. Entertain upbuilding thoughts. What you think about when you do not have to think shows what you really are.
5. Do your best this hour, and you will do better the next.
6. Be true to those who trust you.
7. Pray for wisdom, courage, and a kind heart.
8. Give heed to God's messages through inspiration. If self-indulgence, jealousy, avarice, or worry have deadened your response, pray to the Lord to wipe out these impediments.
9. True friends enrich life. If you would have friends, be one.
10. Faith is the foundation of all things—including happiness.

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The only possession we have is self-possession. Unhappy is the man who only reacts to others. He is the servant of their whims toward him. You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than over yourself…the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery. The depth of his failure by his self-abandonment…and this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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"The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self, is of all things, the most shameful and vile. One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thoughts, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves."

President David O. McKay

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Are we not the framers of our own destiny? Are we not the arbitrators of our fate? . . . It is our privilege to determine our own exaltation or degradation; it is our privilege to determine our own happiness or misery in the world to come.

-John Taylor

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Indignation over hypocrisy is an adolescent emotion. It supposes no one should honor a higher ideal in words unless one follows it in every deed; it holds out hypocrisy as a sin greater than the actual transgression.

-James Lileks, Columnist

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

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“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”

-Winston Churchill

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The best motivational tool is a pat on the back. But sometimes, it has to be a little lower and a little harder. But it must never be personal.

-John Wooden

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