values quotes

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I disagree with any policy that would turn America’s back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things – such as traditional marriage – that, I think, express a community’s concern and regard for a particular institution.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Money can’t buy life.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.