Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

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.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

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

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.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

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

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

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.