Quotes About Values

If you're not intentional about growing your kids' characters and ability to handle money, you can work your whole life to build wealth only to have it end up ruining them.

The good thing about principles is that they make life easy. I have heard it said that when someone bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

In fact, they're total hypocrites when it comes to opposing American exceptionalism (or whatever you want to call the belief that living here is the ultimate privilege).

President Teddy Roosevelt argued that organized athletics could be the means for instilling the character and values deemed necessary to make America a global power in the century to come. Sports could breed a sense of hard work, self-discipline, and the win-at-all-cost ethic of competition. Roosevelt once said, presumably while swinging a big stick,

A brand vision should attempt to go beyond functional benefits to consider organizational values; a higher purpose; brand personality; and emotional, social, and self-expressive benefits.

Just because you can do something that may benefit yourself doesn't necessarily make it right to do so.

Money is not an end in itself. It is merely a tool to help us achieve some particular goal. If the way we handle our money conflicts with our personal values, we are not going to wind up living happy and fulfilled lives.

Without values, goals rarely get accomplished . . . Values are the key. When you understand them correctly, they will pull you toward to your dreams -- which is a lot wetter than having to push yourself!

If the way we handle our money conflicts with our personal values, we are not going to wind up living happy and fulfilled lives.

Love has nothing to do with money. It doesn't matter if you love your spouse or partner more than anything in the world. If the two of you have conflicting values about money and make financial decisions that fail to accommodate each other's feelings about the subject, you are going to have serious relationship problems.

I can't really speak for the right, but it seems to me that people on the right are less bothered about a virtuous self-image.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)

There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie Lambert

The only work really worth doing — the only work you can do convincingly — is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on those issues is to deny the constants in your life.

It's been a tough century for modesty, craftsmanship and tenderness.

Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.

Selling such a large stake flew in the face of everything she knew about her father. He loved content.

Epictetus: "Look not for any greater harm than this: destroying the trustworthy, self-respecting well-behaved man within you.

THOSE WHO STUDY the rise and fall of civilizations learn that no shortcoming has been as surely fatal to republics as a dearth of public virtue, the unwillingness of those who govern to place the value of their society above personal interest.

don't let "reputation" get mixed up with your moral purpose or your will power; they are important. Make sure "reputation" is in that box in the bottom drawer marked "matters of indifference

For scores of millions of Americans, Clinton's "caring" was more important than his lying.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most domineering virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.