Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

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• If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

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  Motivational, Forgiveness, Wisdom

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• Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other

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  Forgiveness, Patience, Hurt

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• The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.

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  People, Progress, Way

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• Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

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  Adversity, Greatness, Individual

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• None of us need one more person bashing or pointing out where we have failed or fallen short. Most of us are already well aware of the areas in which we are weak. What each of us does need is family, friends, employers, and brothers and sisters who support us, who have the patience to teach us, who believe in us, and who believe we’re trying to do the best we can, in spite of our weaknesses. What ever happened to giving each other the benefit of the doubt? What ever happened to hoping that another person would succeed or achieve? What ever happened to rooting for each other?

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  Brother, Believe, Giving

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• Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Wise, Men, Needs

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• Leave people better than you found them.

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  Nursing, People, Forgiving Heart

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• Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

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  Life, Motivational, Victory

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him. What a great blessing to be created in his image and know of our true potential in and through him! What a great blessing to know that in his strength we can do all things!

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  Strength, Children, Blessing

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• When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say in passing that it has been my experience that most people who fall out of the Church do so because they were not in far enough.

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  Mother, Children, Fall

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• Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living.

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  Life, Meaningful, Giving

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• I recommend you come to know your Father in Heaven. Come to love Him. Always remember that He loves you and will give you guidance and support if you will but give Him the chance. Include Him in your decision making. Include Him in your heartaches and heartbreaks. Include Him when you take inventory of your personal worth.

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  Father, Love You, Heartache

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.

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  Perfect, Privilege, Eternity

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• Tact is rubbing out another's mistakes, not rubbing them in.

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  Mistake, Tact

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• Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.

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  Disappointment, Real, Love Is

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• Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.

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  Heart, Silence, Empathy

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• Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.

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  Greatness, Suffering, Bears

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your choices made.

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  Father, Choices Made, Heaven

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

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  Joy, Cooperation, Pleasure

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• If we would know true love and understanding one for another, we must realize that communication is more than a sharing of words. It is the wise sharing of emotions, feelings, and concerns. It is the sharing of oneself totally.

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  Wise, Communication, Emotions Feelings

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• The difference between those who are committed and those who are not is the difference between the words want and will.

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  Differences, Want, Committed

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.

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  Life, Adversity, Differences

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• Good cheer is a state of mind or mood that promotes happiness or joy... With God’s help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. It is a process of positive reassurance and reinforcement. It is sunshine when clouds block the light.

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  Depressing, Cheer, Block

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• Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.

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  Self Esteem, Communication, Character

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