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Quotes About Values

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.
~ John Steinbeck
I don't want ever to appear in a film that would embarrass a viewer. A man can take his wife, mother, and his daughter to one of my movies and never be ashamed or embarrassed for going.
~ John Wayne
There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.
~ Kevin Drew
Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.
~ Spencer Johnson
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
~ Sydney J. Harris
If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.
~ Tony Evans
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office.
~ Dave Sim
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
~ Dennis Prager
The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk.
~ E. W. Howe
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.
~ Euripides
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
~ Nora Ephron
I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.
~ Caitlin Moran
Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.
~ Lisa Kleypas
What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
~ Abraham Verghese
All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.
~ Aldo Leopold
... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
~ Allison Pearson
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
~ Ambrose Bierce
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.
~ Ambrose Bierce