Can persistence help us accomplish worthwhile goals?
Heber J. Grant said, “I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as well as somebody else, that they will not do anything. God has given to some people ten talents; to others, he has given one; but they who improve the one talent will live to see the day when they will far outshine those who have ten talents but fail to improve them.” Improvement Era, July 1901, 684–85, Improvement Era, July 1901, 684–85 “President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do–not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.’” Gospel Standards, 355. © 2006 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.
