Quotes About Values

If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are." Never was a truer word said!

Show me the company you keep and I'll tell you what you are.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

The fact is, "wise girls get more" of what really matters for this life and the next!

There is too much animal courage in society and not 29 sufficient moral courage. Christians

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

Fairness has its place but not in the big things.

People walked away all the time, telling themselves they'd be giving up a huge piece of self if they compromised but in the end, the uncompromised individual ended up with a whole piece of nothing.

In a society that valued politeness over truth, where malice and subterfuge were commonplace, even accepted, Lily's frankness was labeled an eccentricity of her "condition.

The sacredness of the male mind is allied to the struggle for power in that men, claiming objectivity, can also claim universal validity for their values. In this sense the word man, correctly in their view, can encompass women, although the converse is not true and the word woman can never stand for the general but only for the particular.

I'm a one-hour mama, so no one-minute papa. Ain't the kind of man for me.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

For I don't care too much for money, For money can't buy me love.

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.