Quotes About Values

So how do we sort it all out? The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in just one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

Strange things our parents give us that we cannot give away or put on a shelf.

Yes, well, you did not boycott the place that fed you, even if they stood against everything you stood for.

the primary sources of moral decay in this country are the theaters, the dance halls, and the saloons.

It is no grcat thing to livc long, nor cvcn to livc for cvcr; but it is a grcat thing to live well.

When personal resentment overrides familial and cultural values, we all lose.

Jesus is about to give up his life, which requires determining what a life is worth. And that means we all have to determine what our own lives are worth. What is worth dying for? What is worth living for? What are our values, and have we lived up to them?

Some businessmen make deals even if the date of the deal coincides with funeral of their mothers. I like this kind of business people

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Debemos amar la virtud, pero es bueno saber que se trata de un sencillo recurso imaginado por los hombres para vivir unidos cómodamente

Não concebo por que misturam, nesse caso, considerações políticas e paixões partidárias. Ele é superior a tudo isso, pois que é uma questão moral.

Throughout history libraries have testified to what a civilization meant, or wanted to believe it meant.

Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.

For me, that's the definition of being rich: it doesn't cross your mind to mention it to your best friend. And money is such a given you don't care how you come by it.

If he grows up to be half the man you are, he'll be phenomenally successful, and if I can be half the father you've been to me, I'll have surpassed my own standards.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

Originally, anti-Americanism was an ideological value supported by educational elites and the aristocracy, while less well-to-do and underprivileged Europeans demonstrated sympathy for America by emigrating there.

Karl May stylizes the Apaches—in crucial alliance with German immigrants like Old Shatterhand, Old Surehand, and (of course) Old Firehand ("head forest ranger by profession, forced to leave Germany for political reasons that caught many an honest man in their whirl"27 )—as a kind of bulwark of nobility against modern capitalism and Yankee individualism, which are subverting and undermining traditional German/Indian values.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.