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“Love people, not things; use things, not people. ”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“We learn to do by doing.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment”
― Spencer W. Kimball

“Life is to be enjoyed, not endured”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Try a little harder to be a little better.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“You have not failed until you quit trying.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life

“Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge”
― Joseph Smith Jr.

“For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19”
― Joseph Smith Jr., The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

“When God commands, do it! ”
― Joseph Smith

“Don't do anything stupid.”
― Jeffery R. Holland

“Things we cannot solve, we must survive.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.”
― Boyd K. Packer

“There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.”
― Boyd K. Packer