Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Never stop believing that fighting for what is right is worth it.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

We have to choose faith even if we don't feel it. Or hold on to a friend who has faith.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

You have to do what you believe in.

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.'

Long ago I ceased to count heads. Truth is usually in the minority in this evil world.

Better to be always in a minority of one with God — branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel — frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace — or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies moldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," — in defense of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a God, and not of a man!".

My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.

Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.

You have to have the ultimate faith and belief in what you do.

I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone.

Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Christ instructs us to stand up bravely for our beliefs... He asks us to let our lights shine.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted