Top 160 Brigham Young Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

— Brigham Young

2. “Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.”

— Brigham Young

3. “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

4. “If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.”

— Brigham Young

5. “Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.”

— Brigham Young

6. “True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.”

— Brigham Young

7. “If you work hard you’ll be happy and if you don’t then you’ll go to hell!”

— Brigham Young

8. “Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”

— Brigham Young

9. “To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.”

— Brigham Young

10. “Honest hearts produce honest actions.”

— Brigham Young

11. “If you don’t feel like praying, pray until you do!”

— Brigham Young

12. “Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.”

— Brigham Young

13. “The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.”

— Brigham Young

14. “The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.”

— Brigham Young

15. “Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.”

— Brigham Young

16. “I feel like shouting, hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever I knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet.”

— Brigham Young

17. “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.”

— Brigham Young

18. “This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.”

— Brigham Young

19. “Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.”

— Brigham Young

20. “Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.”

— Brigham Young

21. “No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.”

— Brigham Young

22. “Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth, or that ever goes on the earth.”

— Brigham Young

23. “A lawyer’s duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.”

— Brigham Young

24. “If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money; but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.”

— Brigham Young

25. “If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.”

— Brigham Young

26. “Talk about polygamy! There is no true philosopher on the face of the earth but what will admit that such a system, properly carried out according to the order of heaven, is far superior to monogamy for the raising of healthy, robust children!”

— Brigham Young

27. “Mend it, fix it, make do, or do without.”

— Brigham Young

28. “What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.”

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29. “Every day is judgment day-use it.”

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30. “We went west willingly – because we had to.”

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31. “If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.”

— Brigham Young

32. “Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.”

— Brigham Young

33. “I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.”

— Brigham Young

34. “Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.”

— Brigham Young

35. “Love the giver more than the gift.”

— Brigham Young

36. “If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”

— Brigham Young

37. “Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.”

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38. “Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.”

— Brigham Young

39. “There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.”

— Brigham Young

40. “Take up the Bible, compare the religion of the Latter-day Saints with it, and see if it will stand the test.”

— Brigham Young

41. “Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil.”

— Brigham Young

42. “Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.”

— Brigham Young

43. “The best remedy for anger is delay.”

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44. “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 it’s glories.”

— Brigham Young

45. “Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.”

— Brigham Young

46. “The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same in subjection to Jesus Christ; this is the greatest mystery we have to learn while in these tabernacles of clay.”

— Brigham Young

47. “Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven.”

— Brigham Young

48. “Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.”

— Brigham Young

49. “If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.”

— Brigham Young

50. “I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.”

— Brigham Young