#Values Quotes

“What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.”

“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.”

“I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Moral qualities rule the world, but at shorter distances, the senses are despotic.”

“The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.”

“Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.”

“Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.”

“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”

“Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.”

“Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.”

“Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.”

“Old fashions please me best; I am not so niceTo change true rules for odd inventions.”

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”

“A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.”

“I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.”

“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.”

“Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.”

“If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.”

“Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.”

“The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.”

“As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.”

“U can feed ur ego or u can feed ur family. U can’t feed them both.”

“One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.”

“A solid foundation for children involves a solid moral base”

“I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.”

“You show your worth by what you seek.”

“We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.”

“The first point of courtesy must always be truth.”

“The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.”

“You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.”

“The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.”

“Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.”

“But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts”

“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.”

“America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.”

“There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”

“You measure success by how much good you do for others.”

“There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.”

“The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.”

“Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.”

“Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.”

“Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.”

“Good values are easier caught than taught.”

“Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.”

“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.”

“The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.”

“If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.”

“Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.”

“We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.”

“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”