Quotes About Values

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Never educate a child to be a gentleman or lady alone, but to be a man, a woman.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi?ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

A man will be known by his books.

The wealthiest man among us is the best

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.