Quotes About Values

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order.

I think if you're gonna be pro-life, you should be pro adoption.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes.

I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

There's more to life than cheek bones.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.