Words she wanted to remember ...

In the back of my mother's Daily Planner were a few old pages. They had some typed quotes she wanted to remember and added more of them over the years. I want to remember them, so I'm going to put them here for now...

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"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do, not that the nature of the things itself has changed, but our power to do it is increased." Ralph Emerson

"When obedience ceases to become an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power." Ezra Taft Benson

"It's not enough we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required." Winston Churchill

"A good exercise for the heart is to ben down and help another up."

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

"Sometimes we are more limited by attitude than opportunity."

"It's not whether you get knocked down. It is whether you get up." Vince Lombardi

"One of the secrets in life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks." Jack Penn

"Failure is an event, never a person." William Brown

"Live your life so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." Will Rogers

"Only a mother can share her heart with all her children and yet give each child her undivided love." 

"A mother's love is the heart of the home."

"Good habits result from resisting temptation."

"Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determine what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God's business." Micheal J. Fox

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people." Barbra Bush

"No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. Think what you do when you run in debt, said Benjamin Franklin ... you give another power over your liberty." Ezra Taft Benson

Don't et caught up in the "thick of thin things" good cause/God's causes.

"Great Minds discuss ideas... Average minds discuss events ... Small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt 

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.

Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. 

Josiah 2:41 (King Benjamin) "And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual, and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never0ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it."

Stand for what is right, even if you are standing alone.

"None of us come to earth to GAIN our worth. We brought it with us." Sherri Dew

"The firmer our faith is in Jesus Christ the clearer our vision of ourselves and what we can ultimately achieve and become." Sherri Dew

"In mattes of principle, Stand like a rock, In matters of taste, swim with the current." Thomas Jefferson

Pain is inevitable, Misery is an option.

All I can do is take care of the part that is mine.

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END of Part 1: So many more to come.