Quotes About Values

The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans, but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.

Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values; the other half is tolerance in one's own views.

The gentleman is a Christian product.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.

If we could only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will.

What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan, where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

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.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon, or live too long.