Quotes About Values

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

If a man had nothing that was worth dying for, then he was not fit to live.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

It does not take long to tell where a man's treasure is. In fifteen minutes' conversation with most men, you can tell whether their treasures are on the earth or in Heaven.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

I believe the measure of a man isn't just the road he's traveled; it's the choices he's made along the way.