Quotes about Values
Consider a daily newspaper or television newscast and eliminate from it every report that presupposes a breaking of one of the Ten Commandments. Very little will be left.
- Dallas Willard
One of the greatest weaknesses in our teaching and leadership today is that we spend so much time trying to get people to do things good people are supposed to do, without changing what they really believe.
- Dallas Willard
The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.
- David O. McKay
My family values are really, really important.
- Ayesha Curry
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.
- Louie Giglio
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.
- Albert Einstein
Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.
- Simon Sinek
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
- Charles Dickens
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- Booker T. Washington
Oikonomia is the science or art of efficiently producing, distributing, and maintaining concrete use values for the household and community over the long run. Chrematistics is the art of maximizing the accumulation by individuals of abstract exchange value in the form of money in the short run.
- Wendell Berry
People are making careful, comely, dignified work of the essential tasks defined by modern values as "drudgery." And because they have thought of the well-being of all the people, all are busy. There is a use for everyone. The Amish do not have the abandoned children, cast-off old people, criminals, indigents, and vagrants whom we have "freed from drudgery." And
- Wendell Berry