Richard L. Evans famous quotes

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
-- Richard L. Evans

#May #Enjoyment #Spoil

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Children #Parenting #Littles

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Inspirational #Children #Teaching

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Believe #Thinking #Belief

One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Blessed #Heart #Accomplishment

The test of love is in how we live.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Love Is #Tests #Tests Of Love

All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp...ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Caring #Needs #Esp

Your direction is more important than your speed.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Important #Speed

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Life #Happiness #Learning

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Sorry #Opportunity #Winning

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Running #Example #Running Away

One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle!
-- Richard L. Evans

#Heart #Home #Feelings

Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there is a priority of importance....and one of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask, that they aren't always teachable, that they won't always listen.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Children #Communication #Opportunity

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Wise #Communication #Men

Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Faith

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Family #Happy Life #Elements

We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Generosity

Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Waste #Stopping #Wasting Time

There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Strong #Father #Shoulders

In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."
-- Richard L. Evans

#Answers #Should

Someone has to do everything that is done.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Work #Done

Any man who can't control his thoughts can't control his actions, and any man who can't control his actions isn't safe in society.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Men #Safe #Action

If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Temptation #Want

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Children #Teaching #Parent

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Children #Giving #Parent

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.
-- Richard L. Evans

#People #Listening #Young

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
-- Richard L. Evans

#Listening #Important #May

One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Children #Opportunity #Listening

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Sleep #Men #Drug

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Happiness #Men #Doe

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Thinking #Doors #Bridges

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Army #Needs #Should

The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Bitterness #Realizing #Judgment

If you don't want temptation to follow you, don't act as if you are interested.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Temptation #Want

Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Mistake #Men #Perspective

Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Eye #Reflection #Men

Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Wise #Respect #Humility

May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we neglect the divine . . . and give ourselves over wholly to the human," he said, "we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism. . . . True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it."
-- Richard L. Evans

#Two #Giving #Optimism

It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Procrastination #Years #Long

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?
-- Richard L. Evans

#Life #Waiting #World

But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Life #Father #Grateful

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Life #Priorities #Values

There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Life #May #Faces

He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Great Friendship #Praying #Great Friend

There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Life Lesson #Skills #Giving

Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!
-- Richard L. Evans

#Gratitude #Sorry #Feels

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!
-- Richard L. Evans

#Motivational #Today #Tomorrow

Realize that the privilege to work is a gift. Love of work is success. Be thankful that every morning that you get up that you have some thing that must be done (whether you like it or not).
-- Richard L. Evans

#Love #Morning #Being Thankful

It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Life #Father #Son

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?
-- Richard L. Evans

#Life #Waiting #Passing

Enjoy life while it is happening.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Life #Enjoy Life #Enjoy

Sincere love is something that sacrifices not something that indulges itself. Sincere love is responsible. It would never knowingly hurt, but would heal.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Love #Hurt #Sacrifice

Give no man sympathy because he has to work - it is his blessing that he can.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Work #Men #Blessing

There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.
-- Richard L. Evans

#Wise #Children #Home