Quotes About Values

It is one of the foundational pillars of Abraham Lincoln—and of America itself. We're not simply a country of ideas; we're a country of ideals. What makes America exceptional aren't our weapons or our might. It's our principles and our continuing fight to live up to them. Faced with darkness, we must reach for the light.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Still, taking the good with the bad, chivalry, like Christianity, had a healthy effect upon Western man.

It is remarkable that chivalry, no matter how actual or merely aspirational it was in its own day, appeared when it did—that it appeared at all!

Chivalry combined military, religious, and social concepts into a unified way of life.

From its earliest days, America has been an incubator of moral ambition.

In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. And if we don't do this, we will spend our sunset years telling our children, and our children's children, what it once was like in America to be free.

We then saw this same administration, desperate to reverse its falling poll numbers, continue to stoke the embers of class warfare. There is no more anti-American, anti-democracy rhetoric than this. To turn neighbor against neighbor because of the size of one's pocketbook is to plow the ground and sow it with the seeds of socialism. In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded.

His grandmother had brought him up as a good Christian and someone who knew the difference between right and wrong.

While stealing was a death penalty offense in the camps, as a husband and father, Billy Tang had no doubts that there were certain things worth dying for.

Citing the Koran, the Saudis claimed to be preserving their Islamic values by blocking access to any materials that contradicts their beliefs or might influence their culture. All this while they smoked, drank, did drugs, and whored in foreign countries. The hypocrisy of it all we have been amusing is the net affect wasn't so lamentable for the average Saudi citizen.

How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope. I wonder at how many lives he values a man, or if at only one.

she feared he would never profit by it for it was not the fashion to be modest and quiet and kind-hearted.

My father believed that, in understanding and in knowledge of right and wrong and in many other things, women are men's equals and I am entirely of his opinion.

Odrekla sem se osebnosti, da bi si pridobila zna?aj. Zna?aj se, kot boš sama ugotovila, v življenju mnogo bolj ceni kot osebnost.

I can't bail out on Cary, I said apologetically, turning to face him. Chicks before dicks and all that.

The Nashes pushed Johnny as hard socially as they did academically. At first, it was Boy Scout camp and Sunday Bible classes; later on, lessons at the Floyd Ward dancing school and membership in the John Aldens Society, a youth organization devoted to improving the manners of its members.

I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.

And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the millions, I, too, was potentially everything at birth. I, too, was stunted, narrowed, warped, by my environment, my outcroppings of heredity. I, too, will find a set of beliefs, of standards to live by, yet the very satisfaction of finding them will be marred by the fact that I have reached the ultimate in shallow, two-dimensional living — a set of values.

I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I would respect him.

I don't know what's the trouble with children these days. They seem to get worse and worse.

The point is that generally speaking, we tend to be identical to one or a combination of our parents in the arena of money.

Las estadísticas demuestran que la causa número uno de todas las rupturas de relaciones es el dinero. La razón más grande que hay detrás de las peleas que tiene la gente por el dinero no es el dinero en sí, sino la disparidad de sus «patrones». No importa el dinero que tengas o dejes de tener: si tu patrón no concuerda con el de la persona con quien estás relacionándote, tendrás un reto mayúsculo. Esto