Quotes About Values

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. —Eleanor Roosevelt

happiness, not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency—the currency by which we take measure of our lives.

He walked out without his money. The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

she knew there were far more important things in life than training thoroughbreds and winning races. Even if a part of her still felt as if every moment of her life had been preparing her to do just that.

The Left Elite has worked for years to brainwash us into a sort of values lobotomy. We are not to judge those who kill, if the guilty are people of color or women; we are to excuse those who destroy lives as victims of a racist, sexist, and homophobic world, or now, on the global scale, the unfair and oppressive "multinational corporate" world; we are to blame the innocent and lionize the guilty.

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money's got nothing to do with it. It's nice to have, but it's not what makes you who you are.

My father once told me that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for. If you don't know that, he said, what are you worth? Nothing. You're not a man at all.

You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

lady have that matters more than her reputation?" "I can think of lots of things," I said, but wasn't allowed to continue.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

People will only fight so hard to try and old on to what they have, but they'll dig in and fight forever to protect who they are.

In so many ways, you can't choose what you give to your daughter, you just give her what you have.

Before, I had my good job and my gold cuff links. What do I have today? Only my character. I know she can't wear my character on her left hand, and I know it doesn't pay bills or father children. But it's what I have and I believe that it should count for something. Thank you, sir, for reading this.

Even a dog can make a bunch of puppies, but a real man raises his kids.

she hit upon the three things she says a woman needs: Jesus, a job, and a husband.

Were Cicero alive in the America of today he would be aghast and appalled. He would find it so familiar.

The history of the fall of every nation is the history of the rise of the low-bred man and the fall of the gentleman.

Thing-worshipers. Not idea-worshipers. A man who worships things can't ever be taught to worship abstractions.

El hombre verdadero se aparta de la chusma vociferante que pulula por los mercados que aclama constantemente y luego es la primera en denunciar.

But the people in the old country love their children. We have big families, and by the time a child is a year old he knows where he fits in the family and what he should do and what he shouldn't do. He knows his parents love him but that they're not going to stand for any nonsense and tantrums. So he is satisfied and feels safe. American children never feel safe." -The Listener

Es una equivocación educar a los niños tan sólo en el ambiente familiar, rodeados de cariño afectuoso, sin hacerles saber que al otro lado de los seguros muros de su hogar hay un mundo de hombres impíos, deshonestos y amorales, y que tales hombres constituyen la mayoría.