Quotes About Values

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

You cannot make men good by law.

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.

people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy.