Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

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

Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

Truly successful lives are about family.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

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

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

The end of culture is right living

All the devils respect virtue.

It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.