Quotes About Values

Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.

Following one of the most violent conflicts in human history, the United States and Japan built a deep and abiding friendship - an alliance that has underwritten unprecedented economic growth and security in the Asia Pacific for half a century. It is an alliance based on mutual interests and shared values and the ties between our people.

You have no idea how many bags of money I've had to turn down. But if something doesn't match up with our goals - if it's too violent, or even if it's just too boring - my father may have been a philosopher, but he was always an entertainer - we're not going to take the money.

Even if I am just sleeping with her or just watching cartoons in bed, I know Violet values that. I try to make the most of every moment and just make it special with her, because its what matters to me most.

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.

The more we engage with others, the more we find people with whom we do not share the values and truths that we consider so fundamental. In virtual places, by contrast, we are able to select the precise individuals with whom we associate to ensure that we obtain the affirmation we require.

I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great in this country. And that is what we have to make sure we preserve for our grandchildren and future generations all the way through.

I think virtually everyone wants to do good and be good and be decent to each other and pursue something that is valuable to them and meaningful.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.