If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.
What the world needs today more than anything else is an implicit faith in God, our Father, and in Jesus Christ, His Son, as the Redeemer of the world.
When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.'
As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.
When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.
Many men say: 'If I could only see an angel, if I could only hear an angel proclaim something, that would cause me to be faithful all the days of my life!'
What I count as real prosperity... is the growth in a knowledge of God, and in a testimony, and in the power to live the gospel and to inspire our families to do the same. That is prosperity of the truest kind.
When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns.
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.
I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.
With the help of the Lord, I will do the best I can, and... with His help, I have no fear at all but what I can get along.
Not only did Jesus come as a universal gift, He came as an individual offering with a personal message to each one of us.
I have, all the days of my life, enjoyed singing very much.
My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months.
When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gave me as much motherly advice or seemed to love me more than did Sister Snow. I loved her with all my heart, and loved her hymn, 'O My Father.'
I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.
When we set our hearts upon the things of this world and fail to be strictly honest with the Lord, we do not grow in the light and power and strength of the gospel as we otherwise would do.
Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a remarkable and splendid thing to encourage a boy to do something besides perhaps milking cows if he was on a farm, if he had ambitions along athletic lines.
I am always pleased when I have the opportunity of meeting with the Latter-day Saints in any of their gatherings.
There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.
