Quotes About Values

Saying of the Prophet The Bequest I have nothing to leave you except my family.

La caridad ha sido convertida en una gran virtud sólo por el bajo nivel de decencia humana.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

When you find the absolute values, you are important to this world because you know what is important. Those who know what is truly important are helpful to this world, because they won't put their personal concerns before what is important to all.

Ultimately, it isn't your knowledge that makes the choice: it is your values and your will to be faithful to your values.

Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of absolute lasting values.

Recognizing Nothing as one's true nature, following the guidance of our conscience - having a clear distinction between absolute and relative values, and using the Earth as the external absolute scale that matches the internal absolute truthfulness.

Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

You can leave behind you a good reputation. But the only thing of momentous value we leave behind is the next generation, our kids—all our kids. We all need to work together to give them the gift of a good start in life.

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

He gave me the strength to see passed all that is trivial in this world and to focus on that which matters most.

Piety begins at home.

To live in a place is to live by their values.

Hay nobles de títulos sin onbleza de corazón y hay gentes o personas sin títulos, que llevan engendradas la nobleza de los mas finos y delicados sentimientos en sus almas.

When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.

Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

A gentleman considers what is right; The vulgar consider what will pay.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.