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Karl G. Maeser Biography

Karl Gottfried Maeser (January 16, 1828 – February 15, 1901) was a prominent Utah educator and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He served 16 years as principal of Brigham Young Academy. Although he was not the first principal of the Academy, he is considered its founder. The Academy later became Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1903.

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

Faithful, Moral, Principles, Religion, Students

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

Lesson, Life, Motivational, Object, Success

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

Heart, Labor, Pure, True

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

Drill, Fail, Failure, Life, School

Make the man within your living ideal.

He Man, Ideal, Life, Make, Man, Men

I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!

Chalk, Ground, Lying, Reaching, Truth, Wall

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

Handwriting, Heart, Prayer, Prayers, Writing

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

Believe, Child, Children, Teacher

Be yourself, but always your better self.

Always Be Yourself, Being Yourself, Just Being You, Self

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

Author, Source, Truth

Make the wise man within you your living ideal.

Ideal, Ideals, Make, Man, Men, Wise

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

Cheating, Cheats, Fool, Knave, Knaves

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.

Blow, Concentration, Life, Possessing, Wind

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

Let, Say, Soul, Thing, Your Soul

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

Education, Men, Speak, Understanding, Unlearned

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

Blessing, Book, Paragraphs, Patriarchal, Possibilities, Possibility

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

Father, Firsts, Good, Heavenly, Let, Morning