He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
—Brigham Young
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Education
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Marriage
It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Trouble
Honest hearts produce honest actions.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Honesty
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Commitment, Tomorrow
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
—Brigham Young
Topics: Silence
Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Opportunity
Love the giver more than the gift.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Love
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Greatness, Religion
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Knowledge
I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Lawyers, Law
The biggest labor problem is tomorrow.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Labor
Don’t try to tear down other people’s religion about their ears. Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Religion
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Right, Rightness, Independence
Why should we worry about what others think of us? Do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do in our own?
—Brigham Young
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Example
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.
—Brigham Young
Topics: Experience
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- Gordon B. Hinckley American Mormon Religious Leader
- Marvin J. Ashton American Mormon Religious Leader
- Neal A. Maxwell American Mormon Religious Leader
- Marion G. Romney American Mormon Religious Leader
- Richard G. Scott American Mormon Religious Leader
- Sterling W. Sill American Mormon Religious Leader
- Richard L. Evans American Mormon Religions Leader
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