David O. McKay Quotes

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

You have to keep trying to get better.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

The only constant I can find is hard work.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

All you can do is the best you can do.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

I think the attitude I was trying to learn myself was to really try hard, to give a great effort, to really care, and to let the results go where they are going to go. But at the same time, I don't have to be happy, and I shouldn't be happy, with less than my best.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

No man who has brought himself back from what might have been an entire life of invalidism to strength, and activity, physical and mental and spiritual can ever be accused of preaching or exemplifying a mollycoddle philosophy.

Stay humble, be fearless, and work, work, work, work, work, work.

When I was about 15, I learnt that training hard doesn't get easier, you just learn to push harder. That's a powerful mentality to master.

Always it's like big challenge for me. Every point is a big challenge. So I do everything I can.

You can only ask someone of their best. That's it. If you lose, and you've given your best, that's how it goes.

When there are hard times, the trend is to question yourself and to dig deep but when things go well you shouldn't relax and think things come easy or you need to put in less effort.