Royden G. Derrick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Problems form an important part of our lives. They are placed in our path for us to overcome them, not to be overcome by them. We must master them, not let them master us. Every time we overcome a challenge, we grow in experience, in self assuredness, and in faith.
-- Royden G. Derrick

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If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person of integrity. If we want to be a person of charity and love, we act as if we have that characteristic and we will be that person. The Savior alluded to this principle when he asked, â€˜What manner of men ought ye to be?â€™ Verily I say unto you, even as I am.' We should strive to become like him by acting as he would act.
-- Royden G. Derrick

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Happiness is a byproduct of helping others. No man ever finds happiness by thinking of himself. True happiness comes when we lose ourselves in the service of others â€“ when we are merciful to our fellowmen.
-- Royden G. Derrick

#Helping Others #Men #Thinking
When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.
-- Royden G. Derrick

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We are not required to go through [Jesus'] trials, but we are required to be willing to go through them. To prove that we are willing to do so, we must go through our own trials and remain faithful.
-- Royden G. Derrick

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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.
I'm always looking for challenges.
I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.
Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

Royden G. Derrick famous quotes

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