Quotes from Heber J. Grant

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.

When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.'

When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.'

There is no such thing as standing still.

He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along.

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.

Not only did Jesus come as a universal gift, He came as an individual offering with a personal message to each one of us.

I don't care if every patriarch in the Church has made a mistake in a blessing, and told a lie, I believe with all my heart and soul that the gospel is true, and I will not allow my faith to be upset.

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

When we set our hearts upon the things of this world and fail to be strictly honest with the Lord, we do not grow in the light and power and strength of the gospel as we otherwise would do.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

I have no animosity against any living soul.

I have, all the days of my life, enjoyed singing very much.

What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in Jesus Christ, His Son, as the Redeemer of the world.