values quotes

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Morality is contraband in war.