Karl G. Maeser Quotes (22 Quotes)

The Lord never gets in debt to any man.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

Youth demands recreation, and if it is not provided in high places, whey will seek it in low places.

No righteous rules, however rigid, are too stringent for me I will live above them.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.

It is not so much what a person says, but what makes him say it.

Make the man within your living ideal.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

A man without character is like a ship without a rudder.

Everyone of you, sooner or later, must stand at the forks of the road, and choose between personal interests and some principles of right.

He that cheats another is a knave but he that cheats himself is a fool.

No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.

Exhorting his students Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

Everyones life is an object lesson to others.

You can pray best when you feel most like praying, but you should pray most when you feel least like it.

I would rather lose my right arm than break my word of honor.

Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our possibilities.

Let your first good morning be to your Heavenly Father.