Brigham Young Quotes

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on, it is a thousand times more difficult for knavery to get off; and no error is more fatal than that of those who think that Virtue has no other reward because they have heard that she is her own.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

The just man walks in his integrity

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.