Quotes about Values
He may not have money, but he always has what is much better—family, my dear.
— Charles Dickens
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.
— Charles Dickens
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.
— Charles Spurgeon
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is a lot of people who got Confidence, but they are careful who they have it in. We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
— Will Rogers
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
— Oscar Wilde
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.
— Stephen Covey
Let people know what you stand for and what you won't stand for.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Transvaluation of values," a term derived from Nietzsche (who derided Christianity's embrace of the weak), is the heart of Niebuhr's perspective on the cross.
— James H. Cone
But secular-ism, more than any other single word, aptly describes the mental framework and value structure of the people of our time.
— James Montgomery Boice