Quotes About Values

More money," Etcoff writes, "is spent on beauty than on education or social services." FEARS

Y cada día el mundo te arrastrará de la mano, gritando: «¡Esto es importante! ¡Y esto! ¡Y esto!». Y cada día es cosa tuya apartar tu mano con fuerza, ponerla en tu corazón y decir: «No. Esto es lo que es importante».   IAIN THOMAS

Just as money can't buy happiness, neither can it buy time affluence.

And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, "This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!" And each day, it's up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, "No. This is what's important." —IAIN THOMAS

Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

It's not 'What do I want to do?', it's 'What kind of life do I want to have?' 

This may seem confusing considering the "swing to the right" this country has taken, but raunch culture transcends elections. The values people vote for are not necessarily the same values they live by. No region of the United States has a higher divorce rate than the Bible Belt.

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Where the interests of truth are at actual stake, we ought, perhaps, to sacrifice even that which is our own--if, at least, we are to lay any claim to a philosophic spirit.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.

As one man explains, "A lot of us have done okay, but we don't want to lose what we've got, see it given away." When I ask him what he saw as being "given away," it was not public waters given to dumpers, or clean air give to smoke stacks. It was not health or years of life. It was not lost public sector jobs. What he felt was being given away was tax money to support non-working people and non-deserving people--and not just tax money, but honor too.