Quotes About Values

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

No man is worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person.

You can judge a man by the books in his library.