M. Russell Ballard Quotes

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

For me, I will defend what's right - not who I am speaking with at the time or who I think will back me.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

I stand for what's right. That's the bottom line. I call it like I see it.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I'm always inspired by people who choose to do what is right, not what is easy.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

We have to stand for the truth.

My parents are all people who have taken a stand for what they believe in over and over again. That to me is a fine example - even if I disagreed with some of their choices.

We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that means taking a lonely road, if what we are standing for is true, then perhaps moonlight or sunshine will light our way and make it less lonely.

Sometimes standing up for things that are right makes things tougher.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

Stand up for what you know is right.

What is right is not always popular.

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.