Quotes by Hugh B. Brown

Hugh B. Brown

A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems and to learn some lessons in problem solving that “sweat and tears” often fail to dissolve.

Humor

Safety

Sweat

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

Character

Inspirational

Water

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two

Men

Two

Writing

I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as the ‘Will Rogers’ of the Church, and told the congregation that he was a great humorist. When he got up he said, ‘You know, I think the Lord himself likes a joke. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t have made some of you folks!

Church

Roger

Thinking

I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that existence with those whom I love. And so we build temples in the name of the Lord.

Forever

Names

Temples

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

Ambition

Desire

Mediocre

If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.

Heart

Wise

Would Be

Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.

Challenges

Discipline

Mind

Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn’t intend you to be a fruit tree or a shade tree. I want you to be a currant bush, and some day, little currant bush, when you are laden with fruit, you are going to say, ‘Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for loving me enough to cut me down, for caring enough about me to hurt me. Thank you, Mr. Gardener.’

Caring

Cutting

Hurt

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

Love Is

Plant

Sturdy

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Answers

Arrogance

Bears

Believe

Birth Control

Caring

Challenges

Character

Children

Church

Cutting

Desire

Despair

Development

Discipline

Earth

Emotional

Encouraging

Endurance

Exercise

Forever

Forgiveness

Friends

Get Ahead

Harvest

Heart

His Love

Historical

Humor

Hurt

Impossible

Inspirational

Law

Lds

Love Is

Masters

Matter

Mediocre

Men

Mind

Names

Order

Past

Plant

Prayer

Problem

Real

Religious

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Quotes by Hugh B. Brown

Hugh B. Brown

A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems and to learn some lessons in problem solving that “sweat and tears” often fail to dissolve.

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two

I should not like to contemplate an existence, especially one that is going to continue forever, if I could not enjoy that existence with those whom I love. And so we build temples in the name of the Lord.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.

Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

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