Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

I always say, the greatest cost of leading is the cost of paving the way.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

The visionaries of yesterday are the realists of today.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

We must dare to invent the future

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin' all these years is changin' it up.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

If you want to bring change to any field, beat away at a problem until you solve it.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.