Quotes About Values

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?

if your heart is not right, no one cares about your leadership skills.

Ninety percent of our success as leaders will be determined by what's below the waterline. It's our leadership character that ultimately drives what we do, and why. It is a true reflection of who we really are as human beings.

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

valuing human experience, tradition, and custom.

we have come to invest so much attention on something so shallow.

I pursued Christian success instead of pursuing Christ.

Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

Ethan developed an ethos that over the years he whittled to a one-line mantra: I don't want my freedom, comfort, and mobility to require killing, polluting, and exploiting.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest

You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.