Quotes About Values

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man's cult of beauty.

And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.