Karl G. Maeser famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Inspiration #Addiction #Lessons
School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Life #School #Battle
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Wise #Men
The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Education #Men #Understanding
Be yourself, but always your better self.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Being Yourself #Self
Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Heart #Labor
Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Morning #Father #Firsts
There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Truth #Source
Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Faithful #Principles #Students
A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Life #Blow #Wind
Make the man within your living ideal.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Life #Men #He Man
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Teacher #Children #Believe
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Knaves #Fool #Cheat
Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Soul #Your Soul
All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Prayer #Heart #Handwriting
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Wall #Mean #Circles
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.
-- Karl G. Maeser

#Book #Blessing #Possibility

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