Thomas S. Monson Quotes

You have to stand on your beliefs.

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.

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

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

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.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

The world is full of men who think and teach what is right. But as soon as they are called upon to act, they are assailed by doubts and fears.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in this faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.

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

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

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.

If you can stand up for your faith when you're on top, you can stand up for it now that you're at the bottom.

You have to stick to your principles and when you believe in something, to fight for it.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.

From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.