Thomas S. Monson Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it

  Thomas S. Monson

  Past, Opportunity, Comfort

• There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Past, Preparation, Belief

• When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Past, Decision, Preparation

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

• Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

• Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant memories for the future…If you are still in the process of raising children be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled, will disappear all too soon, and that you will, to your surprise, miss them, profoundly.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Memories, Past

• As we move toward the future, we must not neglect the lessons of the past. Our Heavenly Father gave His Son. The Son of God gave His life. We are asked by Them to give our lives, as it were, in Their divine service. Will you? Will I? Will we? There are lessons to be taught, there are kind deeds to be done, there are souls to be saved.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Father, Moving, Son

• Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sacrifice, Past, Legacy

• Tears came to my eyes when I read of a mere boy in one of our eastern cities who noticed a vagrant asleep on a sidewalk and who then went to his own room, retrieved his own pillow, and placed it beneath the head of that one whom he knew not. Perhaps there came from the precious past the welcome words: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matt. 25:40).

  Thomas S. Monson

  Eye, Boys, Past

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