Quotes About Values

Never apologize for showing your high standards. The people who are tending to stay will rise up to meet them.

Discipline and honor to commitment are the basics of self respect. Stick to basics and enjoy life with dignity.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

In life, Sometimes you just have to forget what you want, and remember what you deserve.

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior

It takes a long time to educate a community and it can't be done by spellbinders, moneybags, hypnotizers or magicians or Aladdin's lamp. Character is what matters on a paper.

A real man doesn't have time to cheat because that man is too busy providing all of which a good woman deserves.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

From the suites of Davos to the streets of Seattle, there is a growing consensus that globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his back is to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.

Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency