Quotes About Values

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God's sight than to appear lovely to man's eyes but lame to God's.

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot.

Man seeks his own good at the whole world's cost.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.