Jessica Sims > Jessica's Quotes

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
― Antonio Porchia

“Do your best, and be a little better than you are.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for and accentuate the virtues in one another, and speak graciously concerning one another. Imagine the cumulative effect if we treated each other with respect and acceptance, if we willingly provided support. Such interactions practiced on a small scale would surely have a rippling effect throughout our homes and communities and, eventually, society at large.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not found only at the end of the rainbow. Love is at the beginning also, and from it springs the beauty that arched across the sky on a stormy day. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shining through death. How rich are those who enjoy it in their associations with family, friends, and neighbors! Love, like faith, is a gift of God. It is also the most enduring and most powerful virtue.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“You have not failed until you quit trying.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.”
― Bill Ayers

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“My soul will find yours.”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“Things work out the way they're meant to”
― Danielle Steel, No Greater Love

“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

“When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“Let's still be friends" (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say).”
― Lauren Leto

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor