Quotes About Values

A dream is an idea involving a sense of possibilities rather than probabilities, of potential rather than limits. A dream is the wellspring of passion, giving us direction and pointing us to lofty heights. It is an expression of optimism, hope and values lofty enough to capture the imagination and engage the spirit. Dreams grab us and move us. They are capable of lifting us to new heights and overcoming self-imposed limitations.

The threat to democracy is increasingly within the West.

W]e do not always practice what we preach (which, of course, suggests that something is wrong with what we preach).

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

Always in life carry this motto with you: When you lose your money, you lose nothing. When you lose your health, you lose something. When you lose your character, you lose everything.

Keep on saying that only the stupid are fit to sacrifice, that America must be defended by the low-brow and enjoyed by the high-brow.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

The man who will not defend the honour of his cat cannot be trusted to defend anything.

I suppose the stern and the cruel ones rule the world. If so, I shall be content to try to live each day within the limits of my conscience and let great plaudits go to those who are willing to pay the price for it.

I know that if everyone is a hero, then no one truly is. I concede the term is thrown around far too casually.

Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates.

I think Eleanor Roosevelt said it best: "Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

the subject of money is taught at home, not in school.

Hace algún tiempo que el mundo gira en torno al dinero, ya no en torno a la historia.

The pull of an immoral world outside our homes is as strong as the force that sucks the soft, white stuff into the form. Neutrality on our part as parents will result in failure. Without our intentional effort to defy it, our kids will have no chance but to be thoroughly drawn into those things that we fear most.

Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.

So if there is one most important gift we can give to the next generation it is that of a solid and satisfying marriage relationship.

What chance has a Saint Francis, if his Assisi is a multicultured, financial, unyieldingly secular northern city, whose lepers and other detrimentals are charges on the public purse?

Common interests, common values and goals, and a capacity for deep, sustained intimacy are required if a couple's initial erotic enchantment with each other is to eventually metamorphose into a committed, caring devotion that will endure over time.

Sow a character, you reap your destiny.

Act with integrity.