Quotes About Values

It [tradition] cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

The trouble of the modern age is not merely the inability to believe certain things about God and man which our forefathers believed, but the inability to feel towards God and man as they did.

No one society and no one age of it realises all the values of civilisation. Not all of these values may be compatible with each other: what is at least as certain is that in realising some we lose the appreciation of others.

How can you care for a rough man like me?' he asked me. 'How can you love a man who can bring you no lands but the farm a soldier's pension can buy? Who can give your children no title of nobility?' Because love does not do sums, I should have told him. Love makes choices, and then gives its all. Had he seen himself as I first saw him though, he could have had no questions.

Honor is a wonderful thing, but it is a means, not an end. A man who starves with honor does not help his family, a king who falls on his sword with honor does not save his kingdom.

To be valued as a member of masculine Moroccan society, a man is expected to put in his time sitting, thinking, talking, or doing nothing at all.

Happiness grows less from the passive experience of desirable circumstances than from involvement in valued activities and progress toward one's goals. —

We no longer accumulate to live; we live to accumulate.

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

Once you've helped your daughter give birth to your first grandson, believe me, things like proper dinnerwear aren't important.

Life isn't about the years you lived. It is about how you lived.

But the more I succeeded in the world's eyes, the more I realized that that success itself was only another prison, fashioned by the values of this world. More wealth only demanded I maintain that wealth. More status only begged me to rise higher. And fame . . . What a cruel and jealous mistress fame is.

But I never did, because it never seemed right, and I didn't want to settle for anything less than what my brothers and sister have.

Because the things you have, and the neighborhood you live in, doesn't have anything to do with what kind of human being you are.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

La moral es una autoridad superior al derecho.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

It is intuitively plausible that if something has endured for centuries, there must be something in it. But on that logic, there must be something in slavery and the inequality of women.

We only live once and every day spent living your principles is a day at liberty. It is clear that history is on our side.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I prefer true over happy now.

We certainly did. We just wanted to survive. That's all. Your house could be bombed, and you could lose everything you owned in a matter of seconds, but it wouldn't matter if you still had the people you loved. If they survived, that was all the riches you could ever ask for. So, don't let the size of that ring sway you. Think about what kind of a man he is. Is he decent and honorable? Would he die for you or help another person before he helped himself?

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.