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Quotes About Values

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler
Bad men cannot make good citizens.
~ Patrick Henry
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.
~ Solon
Men respect women who have standards - get some!
~ Steve Harvey
The only guide to man is his conscience.
~ Winston Churchill
Within the hearts men, loyalty and consideration are esteemed greater than success.
~ Bryant H. McGill
An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
~ Ayn Rand
Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
~ Whittaker Chambers
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
~ Henry Fielding
When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.
~ John Marshall Harlan II
Modern man has not only thrown away Christian theology, he has thrown away the possibility of what our forefathers had as a basis for morality and law.
~ Francis Schaeffer
One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.
~ George Orwell
I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.
~ Melvyn Douglas
The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
~ Karl Kraus
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Conscience is a man's compass.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.
~ Will Rogers, Jr.
If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?
~ Confucius
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
~ Earl Warren
I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
~ Gene Hackman