Quotes About Values

I've always been the long-term relationship, go-home-and-meet-mom girl.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go...

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

What task could be more agreeable than to tell of the benefits conferred on us by our ancestors, so that you may get to know the achievements of those from whom you have received both the basis of your beliefs, and the inspiration to conduct your life properly?

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father's care.

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.

Thou art not for the fashion of these times,Where none will sweat but for promotion.

My friends were poor, but honest.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Is it a world to hide virtues in?

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.