Quotes about Values

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth. That

Perhaps she had not succeeded in inspiring any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness, keeping aloof from all that savored of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity.

and it don't never matter how poor you are as long as you've got something to love.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

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

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.