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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• 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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• Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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  Anger, Home, Fire

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.

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  Eye, Giving, Blind

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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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• Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

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  Men, Joy, Purpose

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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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• Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

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  Parent, Family And Friends, Given

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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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• True happiness comes only by making others happy.

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  True Happiness

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• I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

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  Teaching, Destiny, Thinking

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• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

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  Religious, Stars, Kindness

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• Well,’ you may ask, ‘how may I know when I am in love?’ . . . George Q. Morris [who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave this reply]: ‘My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart.

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  Girl, Mother, Heart

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• Let us instill into the hearts of our children the love of freedom. Teach them that to be free is as precious as life itself. Fight every influence - Socialist, communist, whatever it may be - that would deprive an American citizen of the liberty vouchsafed by the Constitution. Liberty is truth. In truth we find liberty. You teachers, feel it in your hearts; instill it into the hearts of these precious children. May the Church of Jesus Christ ever stand true to the ideals of freedom.

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  Teacher, Jesus, Children

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