Karl G. Maeser Quotes

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

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

Be yourself, but always your better self.

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

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

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

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

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

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

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

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

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

Make the man within your living ideal.

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

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

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

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

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

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