Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

It is by doing good that we become good.

I just want to be a good man.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

I just want to be as good a person as I can be.

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

My dad is the most humble man on the planet.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.