Quotes about Values

Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Perhaps the most valuable thing that I got out of my second year was an understanding of the use and value of the Bible.

People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

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.