Karl G. Maeser Quotes

#1. Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.

Karl G. Maeser

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

Karl G. Maeser

#3. Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

Karl G. Maeser

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

Karl G. Maeser

#5. Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.

Karl G. Maeser

#6. Be yourself, but always your better self.

Karl G. Maeser

#7. 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.

Karl G. Maeser

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

Karl G. Maeser

#9. Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.

Karl G. Maeser

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

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

Karl G. Maeser

#12. He who cheats others is a knave, but he who cheats himself is a fool.

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#13. There is a Mount Sinai for every child of God if he only knows where to find it.

Karl G. Maeser

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

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

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

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

Karl G. Maeser

#18. Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'

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#19. Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Karl G. Maeser

#20. Make the man within your living ideal.

Karl G. Maeser