Wilford Woodruff Quotes

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.

The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect.

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Our ideals are our better selves.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

The object of the superior man is truth.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

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

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

Power won't change me.