Quotes About Values

We make money the old-fashioned way. We earn it.

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, "It would be nice."

In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

Love not me for comely grace,For my pleasing eye or face,Nor for any outward part,No, nor for a constant heart.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Black power… is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to begin to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject the racist institutions and values of this society.

Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas — that's what my grandma taught me.

Good fathers make good sons.

When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

They sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes.

She was poor but she was honest,And her parents was the same,Till she met a city feller,And she lost her honest name.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier.

Let them learn first to show piety at home.

Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man's house.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.

Money for the wise is a necessity of life, not a reason to live

Speak silver, reply gold.