Quotes About Values

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between two equally desirable but mutually exclusive courses of action. Freedom or security? Courage or comfort? Self-examination or blissful happiness? Column A or Column B?

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say - or there are no values. Or because the whole book is just a lead-up to a trick at the end. If you read the end first, you may have much less patience for wasting time with that kind of book. Even a well-written book can be silly and a waste of time.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Whenever people use a word so often that they abbreviate it, it is clearly central to their moral and emotional vocabulary.

Cousy quickly learned that the pressure to win as a player as opposed to the pressure to win as a coach was vastly different. The pressure to win as a coach was filled with conflicting demands, to be honest with your players while being honest with the fans, management, and the games' governing body. Success as a coach had a lot to do with relationships and keeping everybody happy and to do that which sometimes caused you to compromise your values.

He writes of the Garman ethics that "there is a standard of righteousness that might does not make right, that the end does not justify the means, and that expediency as a working principle is bound to fail. The only hope of perfecting human relationships is in accordance with the law of service under which men are not so solicitous about what they shall get as they are about what they shall give.

Deeds, not words, are the demonstration and test of character.