Quotes about Values
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages.Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
- Leonard Ravenhill
Book of Life says, "Where your heart is, there your treasure is also."
- Les Brown
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
- Calvin Coolidge
The problem is that God is being dismissed from the culture, and that vacuum is allowing, or is the basis for, the deterioration of society. That is because Christians have not kept Him in the center of the culture.
- Tony Evans
What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
- Patrick Lencioni
The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.
- Dennis Prager