Quotes about Values
the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity; it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.
- Wendell Berry
Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.
- William Faulkner
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.
- William James
Character is always more caught than taught.
- Chip Ingram
What most of us do not realize is that we are being transformed in our thinking all the time—either by the world's value system or by the truth of God's Word.
- Chip Ingram
I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.
- Christina Ricci
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
- Henry A. Wallace
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
- Henry Ford