Quotes from Gordon Hinckley

Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny.

A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God.

Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall.

Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great and good Holy Bible is one of our standard works. We teach from it. We bear testimony of it. We read from it. It strengthens our testimony. And we add to that this great second witness, the Book of Mormon, the testament of the New World, for as the Bible says, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall [all things] be established" (2 Cor. 13:1)

Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness. Gather your children around you and have your family home evenings, teach your children the ways of the Lord, read to them from the scriptures, and let them come to know the great truths of the eternal gospel as set forth in these words of the Almighty.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.