Top 300 Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Important Quotes

2. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Meaningful Quotes, Values Quotes, Effort Quotes

3. “You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Strong Quotes, Short Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Greatness Quotes

4. “Forget yourself and go to work.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Work Ethic Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

5. “If Life Gets Too Hard To Stand, Kneel.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Sunday Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Adversity Quotes

6. “God will always make a way where there is no way.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Path Quotes

7. “Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Blessing Quotes, Future Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Moving Quotes

8. “Try a little harder to be a little better.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Happy Sunday Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, You Are Amazing Quotes

9. “Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Virtue Quotes, Volunteer Quotes, Humility Quotes

10. “Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Blessing Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Friday Quotes for Work, Dedication Quotes, Discipleship Quotes

11. “There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Scripture Quotes, Salvation Quotes, Easter Quotes, Happy Easter Quotes

12. “You have not failed until you quit trying.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Cheer Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Grit Quotes

13. “You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Stay Strong Quotes

14. “In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

15. “The cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Being Happy Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Sacrifice Quotes

16. “Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others... By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Care Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Humility Quotes

17. “Whatever you do, do well. Be good at it. Stand a little taller. Be a little stronger. Be a little better.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Cheer Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Monday Morning Quotes, Beautiful Good Morning Quotes

18. “Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Blessed Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Joy Quotes, Smile Quotes, Monday Quotes

19. “Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Monday Quotes

20. “Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

21. “There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Sunday Morning Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes

22. “Love is the very essence of life.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Love Quotes, Positive Quotes for Women, Beautiful Good Morning Quotes, Good Morning Love Quotes, I Love You Quotes for Her

23. “Believe in the power of prayer – it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Blessing Quotes, Sunday Morning Quotes, Happy Sunday Quotes, Real Quotes, Miracle Quotes

24. “The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Happy Sunday Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Duty Quotes

25. “Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

26. “The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you’re not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Hustle Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Tuesday Work Quotes

27. “Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

28. “It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

29. “Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

30. “Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

31. “Please don’t nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

32. “Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

33. “Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Humble Quotes

34. “You never know how much good you do.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

35. “Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

36. “The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

37. “Those who move forward “with a” happy spirit will find that things alwas work out.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Monday Quotes

38. “Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

39. “It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Appreciation Quotes

40. “The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

41. “The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

42. “You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

43. “A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Tattoo Quotes

44. “Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Featured in: Real Quotes

45. “Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

46. “Carry on. Things will work out. If you keep trying and praying and working, things will work out. They always do. If you want to die at an early age, dwell on the negative. Accentuate the positive, and you’ll be around for a while.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

47. “Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

48. “God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

49. “We’re all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

50. “Death is not the end, but a more glorified existence.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley