Spencer W. Kimball Quotes

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.

We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens.

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.

I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

Sin is the result of deep and unmet needs.

We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...

If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

We need to help those we seek to serve, to know for themselves that God not only loves them, but He is ever mindful of them and of their needs.

Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.

We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.

The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.

The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

Marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person.

The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

I personally regard all of the houses of the Lord as the work of Jehovah, initiated by him, built by him, designed by him, and dedicated to him and his program.

Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends

Change comes by substituting good habits for less desirable ones. You mold your character and future by good thoughts and acts.