values quotes

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Politics have no relation to morals.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

All great peoples are conservative.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.