Quotes About Values

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

Nothing is worth your integrity. Not success, not money, not fame. Nothing.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Keeping my family out of prison best I can. That is success to me. I created that without selling records.

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

My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.

There is no success which can compensate for the failure of the family.

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.

Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it.

Just because you've reached a certain level of success, that doesn't mean you've become corrupted by the system.

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.