Top 40 Heber J. Grant Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.”

— Heber J. Grant

2. “May we be strengthened with the understanding that being blessed does not mean that we shall always be spared all the disappointments and difficulties of life.”

— Heber J. Grant

3. “The Lord does not need your tithing, as far as He is concerned, but you need it for your growth, spiritually and temporally, that the windows of heaven may be opened and the Spirit of the living God given to you.”

— Heber J. Grant

4. “Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.”

— Heber J. Grant

5. “No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.”

— Heber J. Grant

6. “If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.”

— Heber J. Grant

7. “The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.”

— Heber J. Grant

8. “Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.”

— Heber J. Grant

9. “If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.”

— Heber J. Grant

10. “No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.”

— Heber J. Grant

11. “Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.”

— Heber J. Grant

12. “I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.”

— Heber J. Grant

13. “In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.”

— Heber J. Grant

14. “No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves.”

— Heber J. Grant

15. “There is no true Latter-day Saint who would not rather bury a son or a daughter than to have him or her lose his or her chastity – realizing that chastity is of more value than anything else in all the world.”

— Heber J. Grant

16. “The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership.”

— Heber J. Grant

17. “If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.”

— Heber J. Grant

18. “The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.”

— Heber J. Grant

19. “There is a still small voice telling us what is right, and if we listen to that still small voice we shall grow and increase in strength and power, in testimony and in ability not only to live the gospel but to inspire others to do so.”

— Heber J. Grant

20. “I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.”

— Heber J. Grant

21. “I have no animosity against any living soul.”

— Heber J. Grant

22. “No matter in what land we may dwell the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us brothers and sisters, interested in each other, eager to understand and know each other.”

— Heber J. Grant

23. “The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God’s Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.”

— Heber J. Grant

24. “Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments.”

— Heber J. Grant

25. “He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for “there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.””

— Heber J. Grant

26. “We do appeal to all men and women, realizing the responsibility resting upon them, to seek God our heavenly Father to guide them politically as well as religiously, and to stand for right and for those things that are for the good of this nation.”

— Heber J. Grant

27. “Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.”

— Heber J. Grant

28. “I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.”

— Heber J. Grant

29. “There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Heber J. Grant

30. “I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.”

— Heber J. Grant

31. “I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.”

— Heber J. Grant

32. “I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day.”

— Heber J. Grant

33. “I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.”

— Heber J. Grant

34. “I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.”

— Heber J. Grant

35. “Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.”

— Heber J. Grant

36. “I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.”

— Heber J. Grant

37. “If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.”

— Heber J. Grant

38. “We sing, “We thank thee, O God, for a prophet to guide us in these latter days,” but many of us ought to put a postscript on it, “Provided he doesn’t guide us to do something that we do not want to do.”

— Heber J. Grant

39. “I have traveled six solid weeks at a time in different settlements and heard “We Thank Thee, O God, For a Prophet” sung in every one of them. And I have thought time and time again that there were any number of Latter-day Saints who ought to put a postscript on it and say, “We thank thee, O God, for a prophet to guide us in these latter days provided he guides us in the way we want to be guided.”

— Heber J. Grant

40. “He can who thinks he can.”

— Heber J. Grant

41. “The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress upon the minds of the youth of Zion the eloquence, the inexpressible eloquence of work, I shall feel fully repaid.”

— Heber J. Grant

42. “Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where we are not surrendering the right. We must stay with the right and if we do so God will bless us.”

— Heber J. Grant

43. “Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.”

— Heber J. Grant

44. “I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.”

— Heber J. Grant