Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

… he must deceive, misrepresent, leave false impressions … and trust to charm, loyalty and the result to make up for it…. A great man cannot be a good man.

One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.

In order to maintain my own self-respect, I had to dedicate my life to something that was greater than my own self-interest.

Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

At our house we have come to conclude that building and strengthening character will require extreme measures and the intentional pursuit of gritty work experiences.

One's character is reflected in their choices after all. I'm glad to have been making ones that make my heart soar.

I know guys respect work ethic, and they respect the guys that are invested and committed.

I think the biggest thing with me is that I just pride myself on being the best human being I can be.

I learned at a very early age, listening to those around my family, that in order to be a commander, you had to walk your post.

I don't want to just be a great fighter, but also a great man.

I'm a very traditional English guy who believes in hard work and dedication and giving it absolutely everything.

You just don't pick up family values, unless your parents teach you and let you know exactly what they expect.

Listen to your conscience regarding something that you simply know you should do, then start small on it - make a promise and keep it. Then move forward and make a little larger promise and keep it. Eventually you'll discover that your sense of honor will become greater than your moods, and that will give you a level of confidence and excitement that you can move to other areas where you feel you need to make improvements or give service.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though but one is so to him.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.