Quotes About Values

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

The strength of a nation lies in the homes of its people

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

Menschen, die keine Laster haben, haben auch nur wenige Tugenden.

Holmes was expressing his deepest values, ones impressed on him from an early age. He had been raised to believe he and his peers were part of a hereditary aristocracy. He had learned from his father that they were part of a special caste whose refined physiognomy set them apart, and whose elevated intellect was "congenital and hereditary.

As Arianna Huffington has put it: "A world of too much data, too many choices, too many possibilities and too little time is forcing us to decide what we value."2

Iliad's subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be.

You can either do what your integrity tells you to do, or niftily find your way around the obstacles life throws in your path.

Stealing is good, honest work, Said the theif, puffing out his chest. Well, not honest, strictly speaking, he admitted after a moment. Or actually good.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

When they're tempted, conflicted, or confused, they'll know where to turn for guidance. When the unwholesome voices in the pop culture call to them, they'll have another voice inside their heads—yours—with your values, your love, your faith in them.

He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you. Your family gathers around you and shores you up while the beauty uplifts you.

You must pray.' 'No, Sister.' Ciro smiled weakly. 'I'm not a good Catholic.' 'Well, Ciro, you're a good man, and that's more important.

As a solider, Ciro had learned that good men can't fix what evil men are intent on destroying. He had learned to choose what was worth holding on to, and what was worth fighting for. Every man had to decide that for himself, and some never did. He had not survived the Great War to return home the same man.

What's a true Italian?" "He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you.

tradition, properly cared for, nurtured, honored, and respected, continues to feed the soul of a family.

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.