M. Russell Ballard Quotes

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

The just man walks in his integrity

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t a trial.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

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

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.