Quotes from David O. McKay

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.

When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.

The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

The greatest need in the world today is faith in God and courage to do His will.

Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.

The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.

I wish to emphasize the fact that our homes should be more attractive and that more of our amusements should be in the home instead of the streets.

That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.