Quotes About Values

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

I would rather be right than be President.

I would rather be right than President.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

I'd rather be right than be President

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without Principle

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.

What people take for granted is usually more important than their pronouncements or manifestoes.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

Like the United States, China thought of itself as playing a special role. But it never espoused the American notion of universalism to spread its values around the world. It

American exceptionalism is missionary. It holds that the United States has an obligation to spread its values to every part of the world. China's exceptionalism is cultural.