Quotes About Values

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

Men's language is as their lives.

Boys forget what their country means by just reading "the land of the free" in history books. Then they get to be men, they forgeteven more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Men and times change-but principles-never.