Quotes About Values

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.