Quotes about Values

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

When you are tempted to compromise your integrity, remember than an opportunity isn't an opportunity if you have to compromise your integrity.

How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.

In his brilliant book The Road to Character, David Brooks makes a distinction between résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. Résumé virtues are the skills you need to make a living, and those are often the most celebrated virtues in our culture. But when it comes to making a life, eulogy virtues win the day. These are the virtues that get talked about at your funeral.

Not many people sell their souls to the devil, but many of us sell our souls to the culture. Instead of defining success for ourselves, we let the culture define it for us. Instead of daring to be different, we conform to the pattern of this world. Why? We let our culture have the loudest voice.

Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.