The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities. -Ezra Taft Benson Power
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home! -Ezra Taft Benson Wisdom
The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities. -Ezra Taft Benson God
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. -Ezra Taft Benson Beauty
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. -Ezra Taft Benson Nature
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage. -Ezra Taft Benson Marriage
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed. -Ezra Taft Benson Health
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. -Ezra Taft Benson Happiness
Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood. -Ezra Taft Benson Marriage
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter. -Ezra Taft Benson Happiness
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. -Ezra Taft Benson Change
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor. -Ezra Taft Benson Strength
A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances. -Ezra Taft Benson Positive
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. -Ezra Taft Benson Wisdom
Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually. -Ezra Taft Benson Intelligence
One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned. -Ezra Taft Benson Leadership
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind. -Ezra Taft Benson God
Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children. -Ezra Taft Benson Fathersday
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need. -Ezra Taft Benson Food
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life. -Ezra Taft Benson Wisdom
