L.B. Scott Quotes

A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and challenging circumstances.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

The endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple are so gloriously rich in meaning that you will want to allow significant time to receive those ordinances and to ponder their meaning.

If you choose to concentrate on the dark side, this is what you will see.

Choosing to do what the Lord has defined as right will, in the long run, always lead to the best outcomes.

Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.

You have times when you are extremely happy, times of testing, and times of trial, but the Lord guides you through all of those growth experiences together.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.

Sometimes the impressions are just general feelings. Sometimes the direction comes so clearly and so unmistakably that it can be written down like spiritual dictation.

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.

We often leave the most precious personal direction of the Spirit unheard because we do not record and respond to the first promptings that come to us when the Lord chooses to direct us.

No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience yields no blessings.

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.

I bear witness that the Savior lives. He loves you. He will guide you through the Holy Ghost as you steadfastly choose to do what is right to a future glorious beyond your dreams. I know He will.

We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.

Make covenants and receive ordinances for yourself. Then steadily and consistently work to provide ordinances in the temple for your own ancestors.

Try reading the Book of Mormon because you want to, not because you have to. Discover for yourself that it is true.

With all my capacity I encourage you to discover who you really are. . . . I urge you to discern through the Spirit your divinely given capacities.

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

When revelation comes write it down.

If career politicians had the solutions, we wouldn't be in the mess that we are.

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

You want people to feel comfortable to walk in their neighborhoods, go out and shop, do business.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land. The law of Florida is that if you're a noncitizen, you don't vote in these races.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

It's a hard job to become president.

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

How much should the state be involved in regulating the growth in communities when you already have a county doing it, or a city doing it?

I don't like losing money. I don't go gamble. Because I don't want to lose any money. I didn't grow up with any money and I'm not going to go gamble and lose money.

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.

If I believe your jobs plan, I'm going to vote for you.

Set a goal, measure it, change if you need to, keep going after the goal.

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

A good year for me is when me and my family are in good health. I'm just lucky to have good years doing something I like to do.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

I'm just trying to think what other sequels there were. There was the James Bond movies and not many. I think sequels have become a recent idea of franchising.

Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.

I think I was really bored at school. I was quietly clock watching for years. I went to 10 schools because my dad was in the Army and we moved around a lot.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

I believe in karma... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it.

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.

The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.