Quotes About Values

I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light of the fire flickering and dying down and realized that not even in mortal danger could I bring myself to burn a book.

My honour and my pride are in my heart, and not in what the world says.

But a good man wouldn't marry you for fortune, and perhaps you shouldn't choose such as one as that. Shouldn't I? A good man would marry you for love. he says simply.

A single man's imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.

Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes? That's

The American nuclear family made America great, but few are now defending it against forces determined to destroy it. If America continues to have many immigrants with different family types, we are less likely to maintain American values of personal freedom, individualism, and limited government.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

I don't care how the sin ledger stands. There seem to be a number of artificial standards of good and evil that don't really relate to true merit or demerit. Maybe the official system of classification has failed to keep up with the changing nature of our society.

It is not how long one lives, but how well one lives that is important.

If a thing could not be accomplished honestly, probably it wasn't worth accomplishing at all.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

Would he not say with Homer,. Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their ...

That I learn of others, I replied, is quite true; but that I am ungrateful I wholly deny. Money I have none, and therefore I pay in praise, which is all I have; and how ready I am to praise any one who appears to me to speak well you will very soon find out when you answer; for I expect that you will answer well. Listen

What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.

I would rather have a good friend than the best cock or quail in the world: I would even go further, and say the best horse or dog.

There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded.

There can be no doubt that the love of wealth and the spirit of moderation cannot exist together in citizens of the same state to any considerable extent; one or the other will be disregarded. That is tolerably clear. And

Once you have the means of life, you must practice virtue.

And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?

I shall reproach [30]him because he attaches little importance to the most important things and greater importance to inferior things.

ha habido razón para decir que hay ciertas opiniones que debemos respetar y otras que debemos despreciar

No sale de las riquezas la virtud para los hombres, sino de la virtud, las riquezas y todos los otros bienes, tanto los privados como los públicos.