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Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.
David O. McKay
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David O. McKay
Age: 96 †
Born: 1873
Born: September 8
Died: 1970
Died: January 18
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David Oman McKay
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Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.
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Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.
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Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman close to the brink of death, motherhood also leads her into the very realm of the fountains of life and makes her co-partner with the Creator in bestowing upon eternal spirits mortal life.
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Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.
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The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.
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Be thankful that sometimes God lets you struggle for a long time before that answer comes. Your character will grow your faith will increase. There is a relationship between these two: the greater your faith, the stronger your character, and increased character enhances your ability to exercise even greater faith.
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To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.
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Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not to irritate by vexatious commands or place unreasonable blame. Whenever possible they should give encouragement rather than remonstrance or reproof.
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True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.
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There is no success which can compensate for the failure of the family.
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Trust is greater than love.
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Men and women who live in America...have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document.
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The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.
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There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.
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True happiness comes only by making others happy.
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Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.
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When a Father takes the child by the hand, he takes the Mother by the Heart.... The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
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If you would be happy, render a kind service, make somebody else happy.
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