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"Courage is being scared to death … and saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

Courage

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life; it comes to us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives, and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday."

- John Wayne

Reflection

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

Courage

"Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid."

- John Wayne

Adversity

"Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid."

- John Wayne

Adversity

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"Happiness is possible even in the midst of darkness."

- Beauty and the Beast

Hope

"No one is beyond redemption."

- Beauty and the Beast

Hope

"You will … hear us declare with Moroni that hope is essential if we are to ‘receive [the] inheritance [God] hast prepared [for us]’ [Ether 12:32]. We want you to claim that inheritance as sons and daughters of a king. To do that, we must realize that hope is not just the message and manner of the naturally optimistic; it is the privilege of everyone who believes."

- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

Hope

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hope