David O. Mckay

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

What you think about when you don't think, shows who you really are.

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

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

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

A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.

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.

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.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it.

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

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

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

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.