Quotes About Values

People think that whatever happens on the football field should define me way one or the other. A lot of people say, 'I can't believe you don't think more highly of yourself, two-time MVP, Super Bowl MVP,' but it's like, whatever. It just happens to be what I do. I want to be defined by what I believe in, by who I am.

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

I want people to know me for my singing. I've never been searching for a label of being a fashion plate or a top model. That's a thing that's very short-lived, and it's dealing with a superficial level of this which doesn't really appeal to me.

I'm just - like, I'm just very over the whole superficial life and world we live in.

I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.

I have tried the fancy, superficial life in my past, but I quickly learned that diamonds are not my best friend.

If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.

It is not necessary to make your children hermits; you should make them gentlemen. That would be more than enough.

you ought to know better'n me that they respect some things of ours. Or at least they leave them alone. Maybe not our women or our right to good food and education, but they respect our burying grounds.

No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.

The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature.

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil.

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.

The truest test of civilization is not the census, size of cities, or crops; but the kind of man the country turns out.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

We have the same interest in condition and character. We honor the rich, because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

It has been said, that "common souls pay with what they do; nobler souls with that which they are.

When an artist runs out of inspiration or a scholar wearies of books, they always have the ability to live. Character is more important than intellect. Life is primary; our thoughts about it are secondary.