Quotes About Values

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Teach your daughters to walk in virtue.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

I'm really tired of virtue.

In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.

In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.

I got taught a lot of great lessons by superhero comics as a kid about virtue and self-sacrifice and responsibility. And those were an important part of imprinting my DNA with ethical and moral values.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

The society we live in has always taught us to believe that a woman of substance is one who has great virtues and moral values.

For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.

David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice.

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

We're constantly told that all cultures are equal, and that every belief system is as good as the next. And it led to a kind of - and generally, that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.