Quotes from Gordon B. Hinckley

My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she'd like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the close of each such occasion, I have reflected on the rewarding experience of standing with confidence in the presence of an acknowledged leader.

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

Seek to establish an environment conducive to study in the home.

I submit that in the few minutes that Joseph Smith was with the Father and the Son, he learned more of the nature of God the Eternal Father and the risen Lord than all the learned minds in all their discussions through all centuries of time.

Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

When we speak quietly one to another things somehow get settled.

Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.

Today is a part of eternity.

Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.

Fear comes not from God but from the evil one.

Nothing's too good for the Lord.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure

There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.

There is nothing the Lord has asked of us that in faith we cannot accomplish.

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.