Quotes from Gordon B. Hinckley

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.

Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.

Don't waste your time searching and wishing. Grow and be ready...and you'll see God will give you a love story far better than you could ever dreamed of.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.

Love is the very essence of life.

I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that.

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.

Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.

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

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

Children don't need beating. They need love and encouragement. They need fathers to whom they can look with respect rather than fear. Above all, they need example.