Quotes About Values

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. When making a mistake, do not be afraid to correct it.

Remove yourself from any situation that requires you to give up any one of these three things: 1) Who you are. 2) What you stand for. 3) The goals you aspire to achieve.

Walk your talk, live your truth and strive to be the best person you've always imagined yourself to be.

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

Unfortunately my parents had recourse to principles entirely different from those which I suggested they should adopt

I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass. It was the unalterable facts of duty, love, and conscience. But our world had gone so far north that the compass could make no sense of it, could only spin hopelessly in it binnacle. North had melted right off the map.

Every morning you slunk out of our house after breakfast, leaving behind the books and the smell of coffee....and like a spy going deep undercover into enemy territory, you entered a world that was a terrible inversion of everything I had taught you to value: a world shaped by toughness, boastful ignorance, firm gender stereotypes, underachievement, and the threat of violence.

How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity

What dangers that word entails. How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity, without permanently losing self-respect?

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.

There's going to be a period of violent upheaval, which will impact upon our sense of security, our values and beliefs. The broadcast is about to be cut off. You can't rely upon the messenger anymore. But then, you never could. Rely upon yourself instead, and those you know and trust. Stand up and be counted. Be resourceful, be creative. Things can't ever be what they were, so don't try to go back. Don't numb yourself to life. Try to enjoy yourself. It's later than you think...

I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these [the Pythagoreans].

O tempora! O mores! [Oh the times! The customs!]

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

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

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

The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.

Noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble.