Quotes About Values

Many people in the mid–nineteenth century kept such journals to enforce thrift and also objectify their moral performance.

There is no essential difference between religion and morality except that the one is more intense and passionate than the other.

begged the larger question of whether people should accept money gained by what they deemed unscrupulous means.

Unable to compromise on business principles, Rockefeller chose to jeopardize family relations instead.

Though he rejected champagne as too expensive in his last days

That he would give $100,000 one minute to charity and turn around and haggle over the price of a ton of coal.

He avoided a gaudy residence and had no desire to impress other people.

I think you like money better than anything else in the whole world, and I do not. I like to have a little fun along with business as I go through life.

If we do not birth and die ritually, we will do so technologically, inscribing technocratic values in our very bones. It matters greatly not only that we birth and die, but HOW we birth and die.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

We are a Nation Under God. If we ever forget this, we are a nation gone UNDER.

Morality in the long run aligned with strategy.

An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count. Speech, New York City, December 12, 1983

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingness to sacrifice for them. Accepting Republican nomination, Detroit, July 17, 1980

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same.

La guerra es una porquería no sólo derriba casas, sino también los principios más elevados.

La verdadera nobleza es caminar toda tu vida con pasos atinados, con pasos que te salen del corazón; es que tus actos estén de acuerdo con tus ideas, aunque el precio sea alto. Y no imponer eses ideas a nadie y ser modesto y compasivo en tu grandeza.

Each in its own way, the five major belief systems of Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and Islam by their nature insisted on the inferiority of women and demanded their subjection to values and imperatives devised to promote the supremacy of men.

Being financially secure is truly a life-enhancer; it sweetly oils the wheels of life. But remember: to talk of money, the excess of it or the lack of it, is vulgar to the extreme. One either boasts or whines, and neither makes for good conversation.

Money is only as good as the people who possess it. It can be squandered and wasted, or it can be used prudently, to enrich and enhance.