You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. It’s your choice
GORDON B. HINCKLEYYou can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. It’s your choice
GORDON B. HINCKLEYWhatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYGet on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYGratitude is a sign of maturity, Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYYou must ask for God’s help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYNever assume that you can make it alone. You need the help of the Lord. Never hesitate to get on your knees in some private place and speak with Him.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYIt is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership…. By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYThat which comes easily departs easily. That which comes of struggle remains.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYThe cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYI am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYYou are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYThe course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYHe who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYI know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYKeep your families close together, and love and honor your children.
GORDON B. HINCKLEYGo forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY