I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.
Interpretation
Take ownership of your choices and don't let fear dictate your decisions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility in decision-making. Thomas S. Monson encourages individuals to embrace accountability for their actions and not to allow fear to influence their choices or hinder their progress.
In practice
In a graduation speech to encourage students to take charge of their futures.
Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble-that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.
We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.
Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.
The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.
No member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has canned peas, topped beets, hauled hay, shoveled coal, or helped in any way to serve others ever forgets or regrets the experience of helping provide for those in need.
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments
And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
Learn your techniques well and be prepared to let them go when you touch the human soul.
Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important, in the long run, to get many people taking steps in the right direction than to have fewer achieving the ideal.
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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