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Quotes about Values

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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.
— Louie Giglio
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.
— Albert Einstein
Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.
— Simon Sinek
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
— Charles Dickens
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
— Booker T. Washington
Oikonomia is the science or art of efficiently producing, distributing, and maintaining concrete use values for the household and community over the long run. Chrematistics is the art of maximizing the accumulation by individuals of abstract exchange value in the form of money in the short run.
— Wendell Berry
People are making careful, comely, dignified work of the essential tasks defined by modern values as "drudgery." And because they have thought of the well-being of all the people, all are busy. There is a use for everyone. The Amish do not have the abandoned children, cast-off old people, criminals, indigents, and vagrants whom we have "freed from drudgery." And
— Wendell Berry
the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.
— Wendell Berry
Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.
— William Faulkner
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.
— William James
Character is always more caught than taught.
— Chip Ingram