Quotes about Values
Is it the lot of average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?
- Virginia Woolf
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
- Lao Tzu
What we do flows from who we are.
- Charles Colson
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( Frauds on the Fairies , 1853)
- Charles Dickens
My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a happy man. I am bent upon it.
- Charles Dickens
He may not have money, but he always has what is much better—family, my dear.
- Charles Dickens
I believe that virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen,... even if Gargery and Boffin did not speak like gentlemen, they were gentlemen.
- Charles Dickens
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
- Charles Spurgeon
No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is a lot of people who got Confidence, but they are careful who they have it in. We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
- Will Rogers
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.
- Stephen Covey