Brigham Young Quotes

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Integrity is never painless.

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.