Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

I feel like it was a little disrespectful but you know what I feel like, I have been successful, blessed and I keep my faith in God, man, and I just keep it moving.

Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.

It seems that once you achieve something large, the target on your back grows. But I always want to look at life as the glass is half full versus half empty. My father taught me this at an early age - that God is faithful (Romans 8:28), and that in the midst of hardship or attack, God has your back.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

Let us resolve to do the best we can with what we've got.

Give your best to the challenges. And what you get will be even better.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

You need a can-do spirit everywhere.

One day the good times had to keep on rolling, and all of life's horseshit would turn to circuses.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.