Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

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

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

Union is a delectable thing, and so is wealth, and so is life, but they may all cost too much, if they cost honour.

To be without silver is better than to be without honor.

I have nothing left but my integrity.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

Ability without honor is useless.

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.

Self-respect and prosperity are the most effective guardian of morals.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

You never want to see people disrespect anything that stands for honor.

One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.