Quotes About Values

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice

Just because we live in Vanity Fair, does not mean we have to look like Vanity Fair to warn the lovers of Vanity Fair to forsake Vanity Fair. Motives

Great people have great values and great ethics.

The greatest threat to what is best is something persuasively good.

The problem is that there are too many organizations where having a mission or values statement written down somewhere is confused with implementing those values.

When we're self-employed, much of what has been typical of business, marketing, and sales has creeped us out. We want to do business in ways that feel good to us.

Gun-carrying men are not just motivated by crime and insecurity but also by a loss of American values, a loss of masculine dignity, and a loss of confidence in the state.

At every turn, Mueller chose public service over private gain; Trump did the opposite.

Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

I principi morali non provengono dallo Stato e della società. La moralità riguarda questioni più serie che valutano i nostri pensieri, parole e azioni paragonandoli ai principi universali che sono validi a prescindere da tempo e luogo.

What many of us embraced as solid and certain seems condescending and exclusive to them. Values that felt trustworthy to some of us—authority, tradition, reason, logic, absolute truth—read like easily dismantled propaganda to postmoderns. Authority—parents, church leaders, government—has failed the next generation in profound ways.

It isn't our responsibility to defend our values and prioritize our message over our posture. We inherited a kingdom that cannot be shaken; we are an unthreatened people. God will stay on His throne without our rigorous defense.

While my stuff is decreasing, what matters is increasing in equal measure.

the basic tools that have always produced amazing young adults: hard work, failure, simplicity, gratefulness, restraint and discipline.

Do we emphasize behavior over character? Because good behavior won't guarantee anything. If they don't love Jesus and people, it matters zero if they remain virgins and don't say the F-word. We must shepherd their hearts, not just their hemlines.

Excess has impaired perspective in America.