J.G. Holland Quotes

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

Everybody has that little side of them they never really get to get out.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

If there is to be a competition, there must be some basis for resolving it. It is also clear that the competition should be experienced based.

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony!

Rich or poor, we are to “do what we can” when others are in need.

Believe in miracles. I have seen so many. They came when every indication would say that Hope was lost. Hope is never lost!

Let people repent. Let people grow. Believe that people can change and improve.

We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.

True ownership of anything requires time.

God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.

The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.

There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

I testify of the renewing power of God's love and the miracle of His grace. His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there.

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

Ideals are the world's masters.

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.

You're as sick as your secrets.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

Missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience.

Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate

Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.

Nowhere can anyone find a #‎ quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his or her own #‎ soul . We need to turn some things down and turn some things off. We need to be #‎ quiet .

We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.