Quotes by Gordon B. Hinckley

About Gordon B. Hinckley:

Gordon Bitner Hinckley was a religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995 until his death. Considered a prophet, seer, and revelator by church members, Hinckley was the oldest person to preside over the church in its history.
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Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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

If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.

Gordon B. Hinckley

People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You don't need coffee. Nobody needs coffee. You can get along without it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Every righteous man or woman is entitled to revelation concerning his own affairs.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.

Gordon B. Hinckley

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've been blessed so abundantly that I can never get over it. I just feel so richly blessed that I want to extend that to others wherever I can.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of ...

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Author Bio

  • NameGordon B. Hinckley
  • DescriptionPresident of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • BornJune 23, 1910
  • DiedJanuary 27, 2008
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • AwardsPresidential Medal Of Freedom