character strength and virtue
Family Quotations
Ancient and Modern Scripture
Character
Character strength and virtue. “I am going to offer you four suggestions . . .which, if adopted, will bring rich and wonderful blessings all of your days. They are be grateful, be smart,[get educated] be clean, and be prayerful.” ~Gordon B. Hinckley
We must remember that we have control over who we are no matter how difficult the world becomes.
~ Robert D. Hales
Adversity
– Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, longsuffering, and self-mastery.
– No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect. . . if it be met with patience.
~Spencer W. Kimball
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable. ~Orson F. Whitney
Attitude
Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith. ~Gordon B. Hinckley
Marriage
I wish with all of my heart that every marriage might be a happy marriage. I wish that every marriage might be an eternal partnership. I believe that wish can be realized if there is a willingness to make the effort to bring it to pass. ~Gordon B. Hinckley
Modesty
How beautiful is a well-groomed young woman who is clean in body and mind. She is a daughter of God in whom her Eternal Father can take pride. How handsome is a young man who is well groomed. He is a son of God in whom his Eternal Father can also take pride. He does not need tattoos on his body. ~Gordon B. Hinckley Church News, January 6, 2007 p.3
Prayer
Make it as constant as the Polar Star in [your] lives. “Prayer will change your life,. It will bring you peace. It will give you direction and 
guidance. It will help you feel that you are not alone in this big and sometimes brutal world. The Lord answers our prayers. I know that. I have seen it happen again and again and again. . . .We can be perfect in our prayers.” ~Gordon B. Hinckley
Pride
I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass. ~Isaiah 48:4
Profanity
[President Hinckley] told [the youth] to resist evil talk, including taking the Lord’s name in vain, and profanity which “is the sign of an uneducated, uncultured, careless man or woman.” ~Church News, January 6, 2007 p.3
Refinement
Refinement is a companion to devloped spirituality. The nearer we get to God, the more easily our spirits are touched by refined and beautiful things. ~Douglas L. Callister
If we know the books located at the bedside, we know much about the man. ~Douglas L. Callister
Scriptures
We boldly declare that the answer to the terror, destruction, and even genocide of these last days is found in the scriptures.
~Robert D. Hales
Spiritual thirst is a need for living water. A constant flow of living water is far superior to sporadic sipping.
~David A. Bednar
Virtue
There is nothing in all this world as magnificent as virtue. It glows without tarnish. It is precious and beautiful. It is above price. It cannot 
be bought or sold. It is the fruit of self-mastery. ~Gordon B. Hinckley
Walk in the sunlight of that peace which comes from virtue. ~Gordon B. Hinckley