” We launch into the future from a firm foundation. Our span of life has increased significantly. Transportation, communication and education have improved. We learned how to set high goals and work toward their achievement. First we dream, then persevere with laborious duty, bolstered by unwavering faith in our cause and ability to achieve.
One by one we do our tasks. We earn educational degrees and take certifying and qualifying examinations. We jump over high hurdles of expectation as imposed by others. But eventually we recognize the daring difference in striving to do what we do—compared to striving to become whom we ought to be.
Thus our goals are great and greater. Great goals I relate to temporal attainments. Greater goals I relate to attributes of personal character. Goals to do can be incremental; goals to be can be monumental. Such attributes of character are worthy of our attention as we strive to be whom we ought to be. ~ Russell M. Nelson
(“Goals Great and Greater,” Rebild Festival, Denmark, July 4, 2000) From ‘Teachings of Russell M.Nelson’, p.44-45 Deseret Book 2018)
