Heber J. Grant

“I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of the souls of men. I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

“I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.”

“As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.”

“What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in Jesus Christ, His Son, as the Redeemer of the world.”

“If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us.”

“Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.”

“When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them.”

“Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.”

“Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.”

“As a boy, without experience, never having spoken in public in my life, for any length of time, never ten minutes at once, I was called to preside over a stake of Zion.”

“If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.”

“I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.”

“My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.”

“Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up in the faith of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ - benefited spiritually in a wonderful way - and sufficient means will be in the hands of the bishops to take care of all the poor.”

“With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along.”

“I appeal to the Latter-day Saints to be honest with the Lord, and I promise them that peace, prosperity and financial success will attend those who are honest with our Heavenly Father.”

“It is a remarkable fact that we can never read or hear of the labors which our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ performed, without taking pleasure in it, while, on the other hand, there is nothing so interesting in the life and history of any other individual but what by hearing or reading it time and time again we become tired of it.”

“Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.”

“Not only did Jesus come as a universal gift, He came as an individual offering with a personal message to each one of us.”

“I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.”