Quotes About Values

"Let the rest of the world beat their brains out for a buck. It's friends that count. And I got friends."

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.

We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.

Are we defined by our choices? Our behavior? Our actions? No. I don't believe that defines our worth.

Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren

One of the graces of this world is that there is always some opportunity to show through our actions-be they ever so small or humble-who we are and what we truly believe.

The actions of our closest friends say a lot about our character—what we overlook, what we contribute to and what is important to us when the world doesn't take notice.

If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.