David O. McKay
14 quotes.
Quotes by David O. McKay
- 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.
- Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
- Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
- Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.
- If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.
- 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.
- Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
- 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.
- 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.
- The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
- The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.
- True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
- When harmony, mutual consideration and trust pass out of the home, hell enters in.
- Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.