Quotes About Values

I have such strong beliefs. No money or anything could change that.

Faith is important, even if you're not religious. You need to have beliefs in people or things.

You have to stand by your beliefs.

Some people have their beliefs and what they think is right and wrong in a relationship.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

I'm one of those people who believes you are what you do.

I belong to a very conservative family.

I think there's something about having a purpose in life and a sense of belonging that is more important than money for any human being.

My wife and kids mean more than the belt or UFC or anything else to me.

The belt will grow dust and sit on the mantelpiece, but it's not about the belt. It's about how I can be as a father, as a human being that matters to me.

going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect. Chris

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,—that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They

The money itself didn't seem terribly important to Fischer. He cared little for material things but he hungered for respect and he was acutely aware that in the culture in which he lived, money was the prevailing gauge of success.

We understand that honor, truth and hard work win in the end. We are Montana.

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,—that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget

A president sets a tone for the nation and helps tailor habits of heart and of mind.

appreciate the value of our free institutions." In these pursuits Lincoln was committed to what Theodore Parker defined as the "American Idea," which was a "composite idea…of three simple ones: 1. Each man is endowed with certain unalienable rights. 2. In respect of these rights all men are equal. 3. A government is to protect each man in the entire and actual enjoyment of all the unalienable rights….

no people were ever yet benefitted by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

The great good news about America—the American gospel, if you will—is that religion shapes the life of the nation without strangling it.

Conscience and character were not incidental to human affairs, but instrumental.

You can make friends by being honest, and you can keep them by being steadfast. You must keep in mind that friends worth having will in the long run expect as much from you as they give to you.

America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and in his heart, as in the nation itself, the perfect warred with the good, the intellectual with the visceral.

It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

When the word moderation becomes a dirty word we have some soul searching to do.