Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

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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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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

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  Mistake, Tact

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• Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.

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  Perfect, Gossip, Ugly

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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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• One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

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  Honesty, Lying, Deceit

  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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• 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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• Everything is given by God. All talent, creativity, ability, insight, and strength comes from him. In our own strength we can do nothing.

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  Strength, Creativity, Talent

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

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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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• You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune.

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  Exercise, Should Have, Tunes

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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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• Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.

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  Adversity, Differences, Broken

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

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• How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

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  Character, Gossip, Rumor

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

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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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• 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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• Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended.

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  Blessed, Offended

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