Thomas S. Monson Quotes

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

You've got to take the positives.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

I'm so lucky. I could be sitting at home crumbling, but I'm not.

When you view your world with an attitude of gratitude, you are training yourself to focus on the good in life.

I am someone who is so grateful and practice gratitude every single day.

Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.

There are so many things that we have to be grateful for. It gets so easy to get caught up with one thing that, you know, isn't perfect or not going the way you thought it would, but we always need to be grateful for what we have.

I'm not going to focus on the bad days. I choose to live in gratitude.

Why choose to be negative when you don't have to?

I only take the positives, and I don't take the negatives.

If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.

I have yet to meet someone who was successful who was even slightly negative. That comes from a muscle training. You can work on negativity and weed it out of your life. I've noticed that all of the people who acted as if they were going to be gone too soon, were gone too soon.