The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.
What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of us.
Striving can be more important than arriving.
Where you have been is not nearly as important as where you are and where you're going.
It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.