Quotes About Values

baseball should be played for the love of the game and not the almighty dollar. I

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

The things that have made America great are being subverted for the things that make Americans rich.

Everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities. - as spoken by Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame Coach

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

My grandfather was too old-fashioned to be much

What I really resent is that my graduates are not more different from his. For all my emphasis on the humanities and his on God, we both turn out stockbrokers!

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

No people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . .

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

James believed that scientific inquiry, like any other form of inquiry, is an activity inspired and informed by our tastes, values, and hopes. But this does not, in his view, confer any special authority on the conclusions it reaches. On the contrary: it obligates us to regard those conclusions as provisional and partial, since it was for provisional and partial reasons that we undertook to find them.

Addams's] idea was that the conflict between Pullman and his workers was analogous to the conflict between King Lear and his daughter Cordelia in Shakespeare's play: an old set of values, predicated on individualism and paternalism, had run up against a new set of values, predicated on mutuality and self-determination.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game.

The most important thing ...we can know about a man is what he takes for granted, and the most elemental and important facts about a society are those that are seldom debated and generally regarded as settled.

businesses were closed on Sundays,

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

This love of money is the curse of America, and for the sake of it men will sell honor an honesty, till we don't know whom to trust.