Quotes About Values

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols of things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

Una casa será fuerte e indestructible cuando esté sostenida por estas cuatro columnas: padre valiente, madre prudente, hijo obediente, hermano complaciente.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius This is a major problem in America, where greed, power, and money are the highest value. This creates a paranoia atmosphere.I mention this all the time, but first time I have ever seen it.

Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow – that is where joy resides. For me, wealth and renown without honor are nothing but drifting clouds.

If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?

The Master said, "How could one but comply with what model sayings have to say? But the real value lies in reforming one's ways. How could one but find pleasure in polite language? But the real value lies in drawing out its meaning. What can possibly be done with people who find pleasure in polite language but do not draw out its meaning, or who comply with model sayings but do not reform their ways.

Confucius replied, "Those who are true in my village conduct themselves differently. A father covers for his son, and a son covers for his father. And being true lies in this.

The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable.