David O. McKay Quotes - Page 2

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• No greater responsibility can rest upon a man, than to be a teacher of God's children

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  Teacher, Children, Responsibility

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

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  Thinking, Shows

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• There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

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  Happiness, Attitude, Soul

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• Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid in its establishment? Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God's will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.

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  Children, Attitude, Heart

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• Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

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  Prayer, Blessing, Virtue

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• Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought for it, have died for it. Ancient freemen prized it; slaves longed for it; the Magna Charta demanded it; the Constitution of the United States declared it.

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  Men, Justice, Soul

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• That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think.

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  Stress, Opportunity, Men

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

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  Children, Learning, Influence

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• 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.

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  Teaching, Destiny, Thinking

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• Let us instill into the hearts of our children the love of freedom. Teach them that to be free is as precious as life itself. Fight every influence - Socialist, communist, whatever it may be - that would deprive an American citizen of the liberty vouchsafed by the Constitution. Liberty is truth. In truth we find liberty. You teachers, feel it in your hearts; instill it into the hearts of these precious children. May the Church of Jesus Christ ever stand true to the ideals of freedom.

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  Teacher, Jesus, Children

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• The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.

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  Expression, Determined, Action

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• 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.

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  Girl, Mother, Heart

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• Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.

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  Flower, Sunshine, Live Laugh Love

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• Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

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  Parent, Family And Friends, Given

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• There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

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  Character, Adversity, Growth

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

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  Men, Joy, Purpose

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• Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

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  Anger, Doe, Harm

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• 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.

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  Art, Character, Doe

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• The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

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  Powerful, Ideas, World

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• Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.

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  War, Soldier, Remember

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• 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

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  Spiritual, Passion, Men

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• Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

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  Music, Moving, Soul

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• One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another yields no retreating inch, and the wind that would destroy him lifts him as readily to the heights. We are not measured by the trials we meet, only by those we overcome.

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  Time, Fall, Adversity

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• The Gospel of Jesus Christ can make bad men good and good men better, can alter human nature, and can change human lives.

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  Change, Faith, Jesus

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• Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.

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  Kings, Heart, Character

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