"Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down.  It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily.  It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings.  It is accepting people as they truly are."

-Thomas S. Monson

"When the time for decision arrives, the time for preparation is past."  

-Thomas S. Monson
Ensign, Sept 2014 pg 5

Courage

"Courage is required to make an initial thrust toward one's coveted goal, but even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve."

-Thomas S. Monson, Living the Abundant Life

"Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch.  Each of us can be true for just one day -- and then one more and then one more after that -- until we've lived a lifetime guided by the Spirit, a lifetime close to the Lord, a lifetime of good deeds and righteousness."

Thomas S. Monson
Believe, Obey, and Endure, Ensign May 2012

"The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that a true Latter-day Saint 'is to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all, wherever he finds them'."

Thomas S. Monson
Guideposts for Life's Journey, BYU Speeches, November 2007

"So much in life depends on our attitude.  The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.  To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment."

Thomas S. Monson

"Living the Abundant Life," Ensign, January 2012

"I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, "Give me a light, that I may tread safely into the unknown."  And he replied, "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God.  That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way."

-Minnie Louise Haskins
prose introduction to "God Know," The Desert (self-published, 1908)

(I got this quote from a BYU speech given by Thomas S. Monson, November 13, 2007)