The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your chioces made.
—Marvin J. Ashton
True happiness is not made in getting something? True happiness is becoming something? This can be done by being committed to lofty goals? We cannot become something without commitment.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Topics: Goal
Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Love should be a vehicle allowed to travel without limitations.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Topics: Love
Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Topics: Cooperation, Help
A true friend is one who not only is willing to love us the way we are, but is able to leave us better than he found us.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward. I know that’s what most of us find difficult – to endure joyfully.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Striving can be more important than arriving. If you are striving for excellence—if you are trying your best day by day with the wisest use of your time and – energy to reach realistic goals—you are a success.
—Marvin J. Ashton
You can never get enough of the things you don’t need, because the things you don’t need can never satisfy.
—Marvin J. Ashton
Topics: Satisfaction
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- Ezra Taft Benson American Mormon Religious Leader
- Sterling W. Sill American Mormon Religious Leader
- Brigham Young American Mormon Leader
- Marion G. Romney American Mormon Religious Leader
- Richard G. Scott American Mormon Religious Leader
- David O. McKay American Mormon Religious Leader
- Richard L. Evans American Mormon Religions Leader
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