Quotes About Values

Honorable men were keeping their word, my son, long before this Christian religion was proposed.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

All Reformers, however strict their Conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

College guys are different. They're looking for quality.

Beauty is only skin deep, but who gives a shit what's under their skin anyway?

If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?

In 50 years it won't matter if he's handsome, ugly, or dumb as a post, just try to find someone who don't make you want to shove a pitchfork up his nose.

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

To think, one is addressing a presence so bright that the whole world one knows – including all that inner world of apparent self , beliefs and values – is cast forever into shadow revealed as a poor imitation of the everlasting day. To think, one is inviting into one's very life a guide which will faultlessly regard every action and measure it against a divine and holy agency.  To think this, and more, and then to go ahead and actually do it.

The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.

Love of money is the disease which renders us most pitiful and grovelling, and love of pleasure is that which renders us most despicable.

My main priority now is that my kids are happy; that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority -- even above myself.

The most important thing about virtue is to talk as if you're in favor of it.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means -- one does not justify the other.

Party is not only, not so much, a group of men as a set of ideas and ideal aims.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Forget the money, show me the morals.