Gordon B. Hinckley quote: "I promise you that the time will come, if you have tattoos, that you will regret your actions. They cannot be washed off. They are permanent. Only by an expensive and painful process can they be removed. If you are tattooed, then probably for the remainder of your life you will carry it with you."

It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself ev...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marr...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in th...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he wi...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and com...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Try a little harder to be a little better.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great vir...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

It is not enough to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Let thy spirit move upon him to bring to pass those measures which will lift the burdens of governme...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where t...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledge...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that w...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and l...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of m...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful wa...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyon...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams bec...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such a...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

To you wives who are constantly complaining and see only the dark side of life, and feel that you ar...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

You dear women, I say thanks to you. Thank you for being the kind of people you are and doing the th...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you&#...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a va...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his r...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and n...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Jesus said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom o...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith lea...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincer...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that'...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marria...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of conte...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all arou...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot affo...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There is nothing we could do of greater importance than to have fortified in our individual lives an...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

So much of the civil strife and conflict in our society could be ameliorated by a small touch of mer...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forw...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to i...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contrib...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not fou...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in he...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other exper...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must hav...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I could wish nothing better for each of you, my dear young friends, than love---the companionship of...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in tho...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evi...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do goo...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the s...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the tel...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

It is not enough just to be good. We must be good for something. We must contribute good to the worl...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you r...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. Sacred...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines hims...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contrib...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Believe in God our Eternal Father, He who is greatest of all, who stands ever ready to help us and w...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experi...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realiz...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what th...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women f...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Brigham Young had a prophetic vision.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and i...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of lov...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

As you walk your various paths, walk with faith. Speak affirmatively and cultivate an attitude of co...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

The world is starved for spiritual food.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls ...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope y...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.
GORDON B. HINKLEY

Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.
GORDON B. HINKLEY

Your faith will perform miracles especially when you get your hands and feet involved.
GORDON B. HINKLEY

They're young kids who showed a lot. They should be very good next year.
BOB HINCKLEY

There was a lot of disappointment, especially for our seniors. It doesn't really hit you until you k...
BOB HINCKLEY

He's been playing his best hockey.
BOB HINCKLEY

We played well. The final score would have been 4-3, but we pulled our goalie and they scored to mak...
BOB HINCKLEY

One of the criticisms of 'work first' is that it's really good at getting people jobs, but not as su...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY

We want to maintain a customer-oriented focus to our programs. It reminds staff that we're in a serv...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY

If I spent all of my time worrying about how I was going to live up to their standards, I don't thin...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY

I am following two great directors.
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY

We're very much against putting businesses in residential districts, and we're against spot zoning.
BILL HINCKLEY

We value our employees. This was not a decision that we made easily.
BILL HINCKLEY

I started at the bottom. And that's when Larry Townsend was making history. I was working downstairs...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.
JIM HINCKLEY

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY

I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the childr...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, b...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY

Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY

Forget yourself and go to work.
BRYANT S. HINCKLEY

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY

In the book of Alma is a story that has fascinated e since I first read it. it is about a very color...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY

People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING

Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING

Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING

I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING

Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING

People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING

I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING

I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING

'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING

My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING

I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING

The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING

I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING

My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING

I promise you that the time will come, if you have tattoos, that you will regret your actions. They cannot be washed off. They are permanent. Only by an expensive and painful process can they be removed. If you are tattooed, then probably for the remainder of your life you will carry it with you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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