Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

I feel like there are so many people I admire for so many reasons that I can't look at one person's life and say, "I want that life." I want to make my own history.

What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. One's passions may just be a guidebook to one's life.

I have an ocean of opportunities awaiting me and once I am back from Miss World, I want to explore whatever life has to offer.

National identity is something that's directly connected to our personal experiences and the decisions we make, the roads we decide to take at certain points in our life.

It is not about classical career questions but about questions for your life. Those are the questions that drive you on as a human being.

You must have an opinion about yourself, some kind of meaning to yourself, a purpose, if you are really going to learn anything or develop into that which you desire to be.

I don't think circumstances change who you are as a person. I don't believe they change your values - unless you willingly would like them to.

All I ever know is what I want to do next.

Maybe there's something in the Oregon character that pushed me into the kind of life that I took up.

There's not one path for everyone, but everyone deserves a path that's right for them.

You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.