Quotes About Values

I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen,... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen.

Oh! there is an aristocracy here, then?' said Martin. 'Of what is it composed?' 'Of intelligence, sir,' replied the colonel; 'of intelligence and virtue. And of their necessary consequence in this republic—dollars, sir.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

Thus, what we observe to be happening in the world says as much about ourselves as it does about the world. It reveals what we think is important, significant, valuable, and sacred, and what is irrelevant or useless too. Put another way, what we see reveals how we see.

Make sure that what you are living for is what you are willing to die for.

Simply because children live in a home where parents are saved, where the essentials of life are provided, where members give money to the church, pray at meals, and read the Bible once in a while, does not mean they are receiving Christian training.

Los únicos métodos constructivos que nos permiten sobrevivir las tormentas del siglo veinte consisten en escuchar y obedecer a Dios. Los requisitos para vivir existencias perdurables consisten en escuchar su voz e integrarla a nuestro sistema de valores, a nuestros patrones de comportamiento, a nuestros pensamientos y a nuestras conversaciones.

Aprendió los caminos de Dios y cuál era su definición del éxito. Aprendió que es mejor ser alguien a los ojos de Dios y nadie a los ojos del mundo, que ser alguien a los ojos de

No estamos todos de acuerdo en que hemos aprendido algunas cosas en la vida que ahora desearíamos nunca haber conocido? Hemos sufrido cosas que desearíamos no haber experimentado nunca. Allí está la sutileza. Cuando no escuchamos a Dios oímos otras voces cuya apelación es la de la independencia y el orgullo, y cuyo sistema de valores es la antítesis del de Dios.

Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.

Do what is right according to your beliefs no matter what the cost.

My lessons weren't specific to business, but they were fundamental values—integrity, humility, responsibility, work ethic, entrepreneurship, a thirst for knowledge, the desire to make a contribution, and concern for others—that profoundly influenced the way I do business and live my life to this day.

Only a cad as low as a thief Would write in a book or turn down a leaf, Since 'tis thievery, as well is known, To make free with that which is not our own.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

Live truth instead of professing it.

We are accused, furthermore, of having ideals. Well, every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.

Character is higher than intellect.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.

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

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.