David O. McKay Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

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

  David O. McKay

  Inspirational, Positive, Challenges

• 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.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Life Lesson, Teaching

  "Mormon Parenting Secrets: Time-Tested Methods for Raising Exceptional Children". Book by Flint Stephens (p. 20), September 30, 2011.

• 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.

  David O. McKay

  Religious, Stars, Kindness

• And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

  David O. McKay

  Honesty, Teaching, Heart

• Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Passion, Men

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

  David O. McKay

  Men, Joy, Purpose

• True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

  David O. McKay

  Education, Eye, Soul

• Would you have a strong and virile nation, keep your homes pure; would you reduce delinquency and crime, lessen the number of broken homes. It is time that civilized peoples realized that prevention is more profitable than punishment, and that the home is the incubator either of children of high character or of criminals. Home building, therefore, should be the paramount purpose of parents and of the nation.

  David O. McKay

  Strong, Children, Character

• The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Good Man, Church

• It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into existence through wise men raised up for that very purpose. We believe it is the duty of the members of the Church to see that this Republic is not subverted either by any sudden or constant erosion of those principles which gave this Nation its birth.

  David O. McKay

  Wise, Believe, Men

• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

  David O. McKay

  Inspiration, Individual Effort, Perfection

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