"Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle." -Jon Acuff

"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." -President Thomas S Monson

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games; 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan

"Don't get discouraged. Things will work out." -President Gordon B Hinckley

"You have not failed until you quit trying." -President Gordon B Hinckley

"We truly need Him every hour, whether they be hours of sunshine or of rain." -President Thomas S Monson

"You are facing, have faced, or will yet face equivalent challenges in your lives with the same courage and spiritual perspective that John and Heather did. I do not know why some people learn the lessons of eternity through trial and suffering –while others learn similar lessons of eternity through rescue and healing. I do not know all of the reasons, all of the purposes, and I do not know everything about the Lord’s timing. With Nephi, you and I can say that we “do not know the meaning of all things” (1 Nephi 11:17). But some things I absolutely do know. I know we are spirit sons and daughters of a loving Heavenly Father. I know the Eternal Father is author of the plan of happiness. I know Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. I know Jesus enabled the Father’s plan through His infinite and eternal Atonement. I know that the Lord, who was “bruised, broken, [and] torn for us” (Jesus of Nazareth, Savior and King,” Hymns, no 181), can succor and strengthen “his people according to their infirmities” (Alma 7:12). And I know one of the greatest blessings of mortality is to not shrink and to allow our individual will to be “swallowed up in the will of the Father” (Mosiah 15:7).” –Elder David A Bednar, “That We Might “Not... Shrink’”, CES Devotioal 2013

"Do not miss living through the difficult times with your companion. I believe in many ways Barbara and I became more dependent upon each other and more dependent upon the Lord in those early days of our marriage than perhaps at any other time." -Elder M. Russell Ballard

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall." -Nelson Mandela