Quotes About Values

A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.

it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.

In the days ahead we must not consider it unpatriotic to raise certain basic questions about our national character.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

Si el hombre no ha descubierto nada por lo que morir, no es digno de vivir.

What matters is not how long you live…but how you live.

In a time when men are surrendering the high values of the faith you must cling to them, and despite the pressure of an alien generation preserve them for children yet unborn.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question, "Is it right?

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

What you're saying may get you a foundation grant but it won't get you into the kingdom of truth.

the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we … must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin … the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.

it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

The important point in all our imitation [of God] is its deliberate intentionality. We don't just think God's values are good. We embrace them wholly.... To embrace is to accept with gusto, to live to the hilt, to choose with extra intentionality and tenacity. —Marva Dawn

Our culture is obsessed with physical health and soundness. It advises us to avoid junk food, read labels, shop in whole-food stores, and pay more for organic foods. As a result, many people watch what they eat. But sadly, most are utterly unconcerned about their spiritual consumption. They are unaware that they are ingesting a lot of contaminated, unhealthy ideas.

we live in a utilitarian age. Honour is a mediaeval conception.

I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues.

To admit what you see endangers principles.

he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily and rapidly distinguish between the two.