Quotes About Values

A bad person has good friends and a good person has many enemies.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

i told them that men and women are measured by their acts not by their swaggering speech or walk, or the money they have stashed between their legs.

I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.

I think one of the worst mistakes we make is investing so much significance in details of our lives that don't matter at all. We can just choose.

But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.

The Lord's way builds individual self esteem and develops and heals the dignity of the individual, whereas the world's way depresses the individual's view of himself and causes deep resentment

Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish. These real heroines have true humility, which places a higher value on integrity than on visibility. Remember, it is as wrong to do things just to be seen of women as it is to do things to be seen of men. Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.

There may be some who would disregard [the family] and ignore the important things, yet we feel that almost everyone who stops to think of this and weigh it will conclude that when the home is destroyed, the nation goes to pieces. There can be no question about this, and all historians or those who have followed a historical line of thought have come to that same conclusion

Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

always place truth and service before pleasure. Sometimes even committed and one-pointed people avoid the path in pursuit of momentary pleasures.

Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.

For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself.

Consider that the boundaries of your comfort zone are actually your core values.

Whether or not we feel proud of the way we have lived will hinge mainly on our marriage and our parenting.

a bloke can have six cars and holidays in the south of France every year and it's still what's inside him what counts.

Good" and "Bad" may be alien concepts to him, Ben.