Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

"You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure."

"Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have."

"Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured."

"Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation."

"Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed."

"Opportunities for sharing the gospel are everywhere."

"The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner."

"Some of our finest work comes through service to others."

"Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other."

"Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving."

"Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal."

"In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference."

"Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives."

"I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort."

"You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing."

"You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel."

"We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority."

"We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young."

"Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish."

"At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple."

"Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as a gift from the Almighty; that she has no greater mission than to rear them in light and truth, in understanding and love."

"There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics."

"I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution."

"We all exercise agency in the choices we make."

"There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace."

"We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all."

"Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience."

"Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day."

"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."