Quotes About Values

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say, "I have done my best," then you are a success.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

Oh, what times! Oh, what standards!

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

Sometimes when you have everything, you can't really tell what matters.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

George W. Bush will protect your unborn fetus then send your grown child to die in war.

Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one.

Nije vrijeme došlo da ginemo, nego da se vidi ko je kakav.

Bugünkü kuÅŸaklar daha çok hayatla deÄŸil de hayat üzerine görüÅŸleriyle meÅŸguldü. Bu anla??lmaz saçma bir ÅŸeydi ama böyle idi. Onun için de hayat deÄŸerini kaybediyor... kelimelerle harcan?p gidiyordu.

vrline jednog ?ovjeka mi primamo i cijenimo potpuno samo ako nam se ukazuju u obliku koji odgovara našim shva?anjima i sklonostima.

Uopšte, izgleda da je ovom sadašnjem naraštaju više stalo do njegovog shvatanja o životu nego do života samog.

I should never have allowed the gates of the town to be opened to people who assert that there are higher considerations than those of decency.

When we say I won't take this anymore, that's when we know who we are and what we'll tolerate. Until we're tested, we don't know those things. That's when we wake up. That's when we know who we are. That's when people will show up and take your side. When you decide what it is you stand for, when standing is the hardest.