Quotes About Values

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let's be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.

Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Where do you want to live? Do you want to live free and poor and covered in flea welts? Or enslaved, with your own clean room and a shower with hot water? Who are you, Virginia? Who are you, really?

Integrity battles with the desire for connection and rarely wins.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

If you do have a job you like, if you're happy in life, you don't need those materialistic things to make you happy," he says.

I don't spend much money on clothes I never did.

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Men should be judged, not by their tint of skin, the Gods they serve, the Vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, But by the quality of the thought they think.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

Professionalism is a frame of mind, not a paycheck.

But PACT is more than a law. It's a promise we make to each other: a promise to protect our American ideals and values; a promise that for people who weaken our country with un-American ideas, there will be consequences. • from Let's Learn About PACT: A Guide for Young Patriots

A community is known by the schools it keeps.

Quando Pearl gli chiese cosa facessero i genitori tutto il giorno, Moody si strinse nelle spalle. «Be', vanno a lavorare». A lavorare! Quando lo diceva sua madre suonava come una sfacchinata: servire ai tavoli, lavare i piatti, pulire i pavimenti. Dai Richardson quella parola aveva un che di nobile: facevano cose importanti.

The Three Pillars of PACT. Outlaws promotion of un-American values and behavior. Requires all citizens to report potential threats to our society. And there, beneath Sadie's finger: Protects children from environments espousing harmful views.

They were kind people who thought they meant well. They'd been government-selected as fit parents, certified as people of good moral character who could teach good patriotic values.

Our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist , and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

What is the use of having many sons if they cause grief and vexation?

If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.