Karl G. Maeser Quotes

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

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

Make the man within your living ideal.

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