Sam Smith Quotes

“Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.”

— Sam Smith

“I didn't become successful until I became myself”

— Sam Smith

“No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it's ruining romance, I really do,”

— Sam Smith

“In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn't love me back. I think I'm over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn't felt love before.”

— Sam Smith

“No, I am not afraid; the Lord said he would protect me, and I have full confidence in His word.”

— Sam Smith

“Love as hard as you can, at all times”

— Sam Smith

“Deep water is what I am wont to swim in.”

— Sam Smith

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow & people started to listen so thank you.

— Sam Smith

Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man

— Sam Smith

One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.

— Sam Smith

“Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.”

— Sam Smith

“A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; [that is,] those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.”

— Sam Smith

You have to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you, namely by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one: from grace to grace FROM EXALTATION TO EXALTATION until you ATTAIN THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.

— Sam Smith

“I had a role in developing the doctrine From the Sea, which was later modified to Forward From the Sea. But the way we looked at the situation was that the world we live in is a dangerous place. There's a violent peace out there, there are going to be problems over the horizon, and certainly that proved to be true.”

— Sam Smith

“The Naval Academy is a very prestigious place, and I choose to try it. I got there and darn near didn't pass, just about flunked out the first year, but a commandant by the name of Bush Bringle managed to call me in one day and taught me more about leadership in about 15 minutes than I have learned in the rest of my life. And because of Bush Bringle I regained some faith and confidence in myself, learning I had a little bit more in me than I thought, and I went back to work and finished.”

— Sam Smith

“Go tell your general for me that if he does not immediately withdraw his men, I will send them to hell!”

— Sam Smith

Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.

— Sam Smith

“Men are in the habit, when the truth is exhibited by the servants of God, of saying, All is mystery; they have spoken in parables, and, therefore, are not to be understood. It is true they have eyes to see, and see not, but none are so blind as those who will not see.”

— Sam Smith

“[I]t is contrary to the economy of God for any member of the Church, or any one, to receive instruction for those in authority, higher than themselves ... if any person have a vision or a visitation from a heavenly messenger, it must be for his own benefit and instruction; for the fundamental principles, government, and doctrine of the Church are vested in the keys of the kingdom.”

— Sam Smith

“All things whatsoever God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit and proper to reveal to us, while we are dwelling in mortality, in regard to our mortal bodies, are revealed to us in the abstract, and independent of affinity of this mortal tabernacle, but are revealed to our spirits precisely as though we had no bodies at all.”

— Sam Smith

“Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.”

— Sam Smith

“It would be possible to say without exaggeration that the miners' leaders were the stupidest men in England if we had not frequent occasion to meet the owners.”

— Sam Smith

I want to be rich in all the foods I've tasted and all the places I've been and all the people I've kissed.

— Sam Smith

“I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.”

— Sam Smith

“But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'”

— Sam Smith

“[A]ll will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies, and not blood.”

— Sam Smith

“A man may act as proxy for his own relatives; the ordinances of the Gospel which were laid out before the foundations of the world have thus been fulfilled by them, and we may be baptized for those whom we have much friendship for; but it must first be revealed to the man of God, lest we should run too far.”

— Sam Smith

“There is one principle which is eternal; it is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of the household, whenever necessity requires, and no power has a right to forbid it, should the last extreme arrive ...”

— Sam Smith

Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!

— Sam Smith

“There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle.”

— Sam Smith

“Kill me if you will, I am not afraid to die; and I have endured so much oppression that I am weary of life. But I am a strong man, and I could cast both of you down, if I would. If you have any legal process to serve, present it, for I am at all times subject to law and shall not offer resistance.”

— Sam Smith

“If you're seeking progress, all presidents are the opposition. You're just fighting different kinds of battles -”

— Sam Smith

“Many persons think a prophet must be a good deal better than anybody else. Suppose I would condescend - yes, I will call it condescend, to be a great deal better than any of you. I would be raised to the highest heaven; and who should I have to accompany me?”

— Sam Smith

“The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.”

— Sam Smith

Our heavenly Father is more liberal in His views, and boundless in His mercies and blessings, than we are ready to believe or receive; and at the same time more terrible to the workers of iniquity, more awful in the executions of His punishments, and more ready to detect in every false way, than we are apt to suppose Him to be ...

— Sam Smith