Quotes About Values

Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

Culture is coded wisdom

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.

When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.