Quotes about Values

They will forget times of distress. Rough garments will become brilliant while silks and satins lose their sheen. The humble cottage will be more desirable than a palatial home. Patience will be more honorable than power. Obedience will count more than knowledge.

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.

Hence it is predicated chiefly of the virtuous; then of the pleasant; and lastly of the useful.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.

Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

If the Moral Law doesn't exist, then there's no moral difference between the behavior of Mother Teresa and that of Hitler.

difference between sociology and morality. Sociology is descriptive; morality is prescriptive.

With every moment of your time, every decision about how you spend your energy and your money, you are making a statement about what really matters to you.

Children need to do more than learn new skills. The theory of capabilities suggests they need to be challenged. They need to solve hard problems. They need to develop values. When you find yourself providing more and more experiences that are not giving children an opportunity to be deeply engaged, you are not equipping them with the processes they need to succeed in the future.

One of the bittersweet rewards of success is, in fact, that as companies become large, they literally lose the capability to enter small emerging markets. This disability is not because of a change in the resources within the companies—their resources typically are vast. Rather, it is because their values change.

If your family matters most to you, when you think about all the choices you've made with your time in a week, does your family seem to come out on top? Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.