Quotes from Spencer W. Kimball

Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.

Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.

To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.

There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.

We must lengthen our stride and must do it now because we over ate and feel fat.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

Time cannot be recycled. When a moment has gone, it is really gone. Wise time management is really wise management of ourselves.

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us.

Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

How long has it been since you took your children, whatever their size, in your arms and told them that you love them and are glad that they can be yours forever?

Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.

When one...consciously and determinedly directs his thoughts, controls his acts, and tries to feel and constantly express his love, he becomes a person of love.

Strength and struggle travel together.

The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?