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Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Lonely, Joy, May

The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage

Gordon B. Hinckley
Quality, Success In Life, Mark

As you walk the road of life, be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Life Is, Break, Be Careful

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs friends. No one wishes to be without them. But never lose sight of the fact that it is your friends who will lead you along the paths that you will follow.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Friendship, One Direction, Sight
Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Enough, Be Good
Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Use, World, May

Quiet talk is the language of love. It is the language of peace. It is the language of God.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Language Of Love, Quiet, Language
Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.161, Harmony

He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Motivational, Forget, Grows
“Whosoever Will Save His Life” by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. August 1982.

The gospel is a thing of joy. It provides us with a reason for gladness. Of course there are times of sorrow. Of course there are hours of concern and anxiety. We all worry. But the Lord has told us to lift our hearts and rejoice. I see so many people...who seem never to see the sunshine, but who constantly walk with storms under cloudy skies. Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Attitude, Heart, Sunshine

If every husband and every wife would constantly do whatever might be possible to ensure the comfort and happiness of his or her companion, there would be very little, if any, divorce. Argument would never be heard. Accusations would never be leveled. Angry explosions would not occur. Rather, love and concern would replace abuse and meanness.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Husband, Divorce, Wife

If you do not choose the kingdom of God, it does not matter what you choose instead.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Doe, Kingdoms, Matter

Look for the Sunlight through the Clouds.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Clouds, Looks, Sunlight
Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.120, Harmony

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Book, Giving, Effort

Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even so we, in a small measure, when we engage in proxy work in the temple, become as saviors to those on the other side.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Sacrifice, Men, Sides

There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Cutting, Our World, Opposites

Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Limitless, Your Future, Our Future
Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Book, Thinking, Mind

I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Blessed, House, Promise

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Perfection, Excellence, Mediocrity

Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Children, Home, Love Is
Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.3, Harmony

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Criticism, Kind, Defeat

There has come to you as your birthright something beautiful and sacred and divine. Never forget that. Your Eternal Father is the Great master of the Universe. He rules over all, but He also will listen to your prayers as His daughter and hear you as you speak with Him. He will answer your prayers. He will not leave you alone.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Beautiful, Daughter, Prayer

We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the same time, we can bring in a touch of humor now and again. If the time ever comes when we can’t smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Taken, Littles, Should

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Hurt, Tired, Challenges

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Wise, Divorce, Example

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