Top 150 Spencer W. Kimball Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That’s our motto.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

52. “When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

53. “To be a mother is a woman’s greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation’s citizens.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

54. “Strength and struggle travel together.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

55. “The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

56. “I have learned that it is by serving that we learn how to serve. When we engaged in the service of our fellowmen, not only do our deeds assist them but we put our own problems in fresher perspective. When we concern ourselves more with others, there is less time to be concerned with ourselves.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

57. “If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

58. “Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

59. “Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

60. “O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

61. “Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!”

— Spencer W. Kimball

62. “One of Satan’s sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

63. “Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

64. “Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

65. “If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions. Perhaps this is why President Brigham Young once said that if he could do but one thing to bless the Saints, he believed it would be to give them eyes with which to see things as they are.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

66. “Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one’s lifetime.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

67. “Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

68. “Develop discipline of self so that you do not have to decide and re-decide what you will do when you are confronted with the same temptation time and time again. You need only decide some things once.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

69. “The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

70. “There isn’t anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

71. “The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

72. “There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

73. “To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

74. “I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express purpose of building the kingdom. Others may use them for business, professional or other purposes, but basically they are to build the kingdom.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

75. “Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it...”

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76. “We are on the whole an idolatrous people.”

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77. “Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

78. “Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

79. “We must lengthen our stride and must do it now because we over ate and feel fat.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

80. “Above all, I declare that Jesus Christ is the center of our faith; I testify to you that he lives. He leads his Church today; he hears our prayers when we humbly, earnestly, unceasingly seek to know his will, making this, too, a day of miracles and of revelation.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

81. “We want you to be ready with your personal storehouses filled with at least a year’s supply. You don’t argue why it cannot be done; you just plan to organize and get it done.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

82. “It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

83. “Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

84. “Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

85. “The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

86. “If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

87. “We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

88. “We are not measured by the trials we meet – only by those we overcome.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

89. “Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

90. “They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

91. “I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

92. “The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

93. “The Lord’s way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world’s way depresses the individual’s view of himself and causes deep resentment.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

94. “Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

95. “To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

96. “Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

97. “One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

98. “Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

99. “In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness.”

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100. “Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects...”

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