Quotes about Values
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.
— Charlie Munger
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
— Thomas Merton
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
— Albert Einstein
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
— Winston Churchill
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
— CS Lewis
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
— Thomas Jefferson
For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.
— Barack Obama
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.
— Bishop TD Jakes
someone you considered a friend will kick you to the curb because you stop hanging out so much with the fellas to be with your girlfriend. Prioritize your relationships and you will discover who your real friends are.
— Bishop TD Jakes
she knew there were far more important things in life than training thoroughbreds and winning races. Even if a part of her still felt as if every moment of her life had been preparing her to do just that.
— Tamera Alexander
My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.
— Tana French