Quotes About Values

Fy on possessiounBut if a man be vertuous withal.

However, for Hardy the possibility of poetry's traditional function of transcendence remains, but in a more limited form. In Hardy's work the poet transcends himself towards humanity, affirming the central values of loving-kindness and fellowship.

And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else —happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so goes their goodness.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.

Education is the art of making man ethical

Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.

The wealthy have nothing left except money.

What's so poignant about this mismatch is that a winning campus-to-career alliance is within reach—if only the combatants could talk about their values, needs, and achievements in a shared language that makes sense to one another. Instead, scholars, students, and employers are at odds because of an agonizing translation problem.

You either stand for Jesus or you stand for all that He died to repudiate.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

You can be as romantic as you please about love, Hector; but you mustn't be romantic about money

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Pickering: Have you no morals, man?Doolittle: Can't afford them, Governor.

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves.

Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue;

the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally.

Discipleship, therefore, must necessarily be an uncomfortable process of reorientation and of abandonment of the self-centered values of human society in favor of the divine economy, in which "Many who are first will be last, and the last first" (10:31).

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.