Richard L. Evans Quotes

#1. Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

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#2. Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.

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#3. Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

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#4. There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.

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#5. We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

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#6. Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

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#7. The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

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#8. Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.

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#9. Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.

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#10. Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

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#11. May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

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#12. What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

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#13. The test of love is in how we live.

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#14. We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

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#15. Enjoy life while it is happening.

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#16. Shouldn't the commandments be re-written? No, they should be re-read!

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#17. A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

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#18. Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

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#19. We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

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#20. Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

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#21. Someone has to do everything that is done.

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#22. He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.

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#23. Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

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#24. It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.

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#25. We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

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#26. Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.

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#27. We are what we are, wherever we are.

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#28. Go ahead with your life, your plans ... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

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#29. There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.

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#30. Your direction is more important than your speed.

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#31. Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).

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#32. One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

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#33. In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."

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#34. I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

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#35. The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

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#36. There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

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#37. No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.

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#38. We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion.

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#39. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!

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#40. Live so as to have a quiet conscience.

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#41. If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested.

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#42. Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

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#43. Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

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#44. A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

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#45. This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

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#46. Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.

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#47. If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.

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#48. What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

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