Quotes from Gordon B. Hinckley

Children can be disciplined with love.

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

You have not failed until you quit trying.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

As you walk the road of life, be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you.

Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

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.

Brigham Young had a prophetic vision.

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.

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

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.

Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

While there may be thorns and disappointments, while there may be heartache, even heartbreak, there can be peace and comfort and strength from the Lord for those who follow Him.

Strength to do battle begins with enlisting the strength of God.