Quotes About Values

With all its worship of material success, society has missed a profound truth: success depends on who you are, not what you do.

The people who actually combat the world's injustice are not consumed by anger. They are clear-headed, self-possessed, and certain as to where their values lie.

As things stand, most people approach life from the bottom up, giving their material needs priority.

Now more than ever, in this age of violence and confusion, there is an urgent need for parents to take on the role of spiritual teachers to their children.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

Your only treasures are those that you carry in your heart.

Honey, I work for money not love.

The truth is that our enjoyments and our evaluations, like our trades, are learned; intensive knowledge, as well as extensive, is acquired. We learn how to value possessions as well as how to make them; our passions, our disgusts, and our ambitions are learned. Just as we have evolved ways of transmuting physical elements from one to another, so we have evolved ways of transmuting experience into meaning.

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence

It's not the how, Maddy, It's the Who.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, and money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.