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Let us take a little time to meditate, to think of what we can do to improve our lives and to become better examples of what a Latter-day Saint should be.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Gordon B. Hinckley
Age: 97 †
Born: 1910
Born: June 23
Died: 2008
Died: January 27
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By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
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You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.
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It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.
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Believe in yourselves. Believe in your capacity to do some good in this world. God sent us here for a purpose, and that was to improve the world in which we live. The wonderful thing is that we can do it.
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We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.
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