Brigham Young quotes

If you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money, but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.
- Brigham Young

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
- Brigham Young

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
- Brigham Young

All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.
- Brigham Young

Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.
- Brigham Young

Love the giver more than the gift.
- Brigham Young

There is neither man or woman in this Church who is not on a mission. That mission will last as long as they live, and it is to do good, to promote righteousness, to teach the principles of truth, and to prevail upon themselves and everybody around them to live those principles that they may obtain eternal life.
- Brigham Young

Now, where a man in this church says, 'I don't want but one wife, I will live my religion with one,' he will perhaps be saved in the Celestial kingdom; but when he gets there he will not find himself in possession of any wife at all. He has had a talent that he has hid up. He will come forward and say, 'Here is that which thou gavest me, I have not wasted it, and here is the one talent,' and he will not enjoy it but it will be taken and given to those who have improved the talents they received, and he will find himself without any wife, and he will remain single forever and ever.
- Brigham Young

The men and women, who desire to obtain seats in the celestial kingdom, will find that they must battle everyday.
- Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
- Brigham Young

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.
- Brigham Young

Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.
- Brigham Young

If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for yourselves and save against a day of scarcity those substances designed to sustain your natural lives?
- Brigham Young

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
- Brigham Young

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
- Brigham Young

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
- Brigham Young

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.
- Brigham Young

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy.
- Brigham Young

What a learned idea! Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven. Now, let all who may hear these doctrines, pause before they make light of them, or treat them with indifference, for they will prove their salvation or damnation.
- Brigham Young

We went west willingly--because we had to.
- Brigham Young

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
- Brigham Young