Quotes About Values

He never bragged about how well he had done in business, but it was clear that he was pleased by the fact that, living by his few tight moral maxims—keep your overhead low, don't live beyond your means, always put something away for a rainy day—he had come out a winner. Always a methodical businessman, my

There is no right and no wrong, but right is right and wrong is wrong.

I'd rather have peanut brittle crumbs on my face than flies in my eyes," Havermeyer retorted.

The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he's prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. —SIDNEY HOOK

He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down.

Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.

this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety.

Namely, the very values that the American patriots claimed to be fighting for were incompatible with the disciplined culture required in a professional army. Republics were committed to a core principle of consent, while armies were the institutional embodiments of unthinking obedience and routinized coercion. The very idea of a "standing army" struck most members of the Continental Congress and the state legislatures as a highly dangerous threat to republican principles.

Pienso, como pensaba Cecil, que la lucha por la familia, por los ciudadanos libres y por todo lo decente ha de librarse hoy día desde la sección combativa del cristianismo.

Fairy stories had introduced him to morality and he came to believe that only in morality was reality.

The first thing a man will do for his ideal is lie

Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

Marriage, family. What else is there? You had to grow up. You had to accept it.

Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

Nobody on their death bed ever worried about their bank balance.

Remember that we cannot judge the moral value of any action by how we feel. Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

There is a difference in a person's "who" and their "do." God may not always be happy with what you do, but He is always pleased with who you are.

Don't give your family and friends the scraps you have left over while you give the world your best. The world will let you down in the end. It will take everything you have and disappear when you are in need.

People didn't get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others.

People didn't get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others. His parents . . . well, they didn't understand the concept of "nice.

You must understand something. Money is not a sign of achievement.

Ä°dealistlerin çok belirli bir özellikleri vard?r.Neyin doÄŸru neyin yaln?? olduÄŸuna kendileri karar verirler.Ä°çlerinden gelen sesi dinlerler ve kendi deÄŸer yarg?lar? doÄŸrultusunda davran?rlar.Ä°dealizm törpülenmedikçe,kendisindn baÅŸka hiç bir otoriteye boyun eÄŸmez.Ä°dealistler her zaman serseri may?nlard?r.

That's not a bad word . . . hate and war are bad words but fuck isn't.