David O. McKay Quotes

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• No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

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  Family, Work, Home

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• Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

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  Soul, Secret, Important

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• Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

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  Love, Inspirational, Work

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• The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

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  Children, Life Lesson, Teaching

  "Mormon Parenting Secrets: Time-Tested Methods for Raising Exceptional Children". Book by Flint Stephens (p. 20), September 30, 2011.

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• The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.

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  Family, Wall, Home

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• Be thankful that sometimes God lets you struggle for a long time before that answer comes. Your character will grow; your faith will increase. There is a relationship between these two: the greater your faith, the stronger your character, and increased character enhances your ability to exercise even greater faith.

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  Struggle, Character, Exercise

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

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  Anger, Home, Fire

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• 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.

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  Mother, Children, Father

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• A man's reaction to his appetites and impulses when they are roused gives the measure of that man's character. In these reactions are revealed the man's power to govern or his forced servility to yield.

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  Character, Power, Men

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• Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

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  Joy, Soul, Share

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• The noblest calling in the world is motherhood. True motherhood is the most beautiful of all arts, the greatest of all professions. She who can paint a masterpiece, or who can write a book that will influence millions, deserve the plaudits and admiration of mankind; but she who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters whose immortal souls will exert influence throughout the ages long after paintings shall have faded, and books and statues shall have decayed or been destroyed, deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God.

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  Beautiful, Daughter, Art

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• Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Challenges

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• There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There is as much need for sunshine in our heart as for sunshine in the world. Today, as perhaps never before, mankind needs encouragement and cheer.

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  Encouragement, Cheer, Attitude

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• If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.

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  Would Be, Kind, Ifs

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• Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. … As nothing reveals character like the company we like and keep, so nothing foretells futurity like the thoughts over which we brood. … To have the approval of your conscience when you are alone with your thoughts is like being in the company of true and loving friends. To merit your own self-respect gives strength to character. Conscience is the link that binds your soul to the spirit of God.

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  Character, Self, Giving

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• All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your soul power—‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’ (Matt. 7:7.) But you have to seek, you have to knock. On the other hand, sin thrusts itself upon you. It walks beside you, it tempts you, it entices, it allures. You do not have to put forth effort. … Evil seeks you, and it requires effort and fortitude to combat it. But truth and wisdom are gained only by seeking, by prayer, and by effort.

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  Prayer, Hands, Evil

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

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  Change, Faith, Jesus

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• He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

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  Anger, Evil, Hatred

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

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  Needs, World, Today

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

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  Heart, Aroma, Warm

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• An essential virtue is humility. ... The principle of humility and prayer leads one to feel a need of divine guidance. Self-reliance is a virtue, but with it should go a consciousness of the need of superior help-a consciousness that as you walk firmly in the pathway of duty, there is a possibility of your making a misstep; and with that consciousness is a prayer, a pleading that God will inspire you to avoid that false step

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  Prayer, Humility, Divine Guidance

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• Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

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  Children, Learning, Influence

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• Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

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  Anger, Doe, Harm

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• Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought for it, have died for it. Ancient freemen prized it; slaves longed for it; the Magna Charta demanded it; the Constitution of the United States declared it.

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  Men, Justice, Soul

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