Browsing Quotes With Tag: example (5)
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Kindness will beget friendship and favor, but anger or passion will drive away sympathy. To win one’s respect and confidence, approach him mildly, kindly. No friendship was ever gained by an attack upon principle or upon man, but by calm reason and the lowly Spirit of Truth.
If you have built for a man a better house than his own, and he is willing to accept yours and forsake his, then, and not till then, should you proceed to tear down the old structure. Rotten though it may be it will require some time for it to lose all its charms and fond memories of its former occupant. Therefore let him, not you, proceed to tear it away. Kindness and courtesy are the primal elements of gentility.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithSource: Letter of 18 May 1896 to Hyrum M. Smith, in From Prophet to Son, pp. 42-43Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
May we sacrifice and labor to rear a generation strong enough to resist the siren songs of popular culture, a generation filled with the Holy Ghost so that they may discern the difference between good and evil, between legitimate tolerance and moral surrender.
Speaker: Bruce D. PorterSource: June 2011 Ensign, page 18Posted: 19 Jun 2011 at 1:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.
Speaker: Catherine AirdPosted: 05 Sep 2009 at 10:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People pay very little attention to what you say about your religion. they’re too busy watching what you do about it.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:24 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!