Quotes about Values
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
- Confucius
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
- Stephen Covey
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.
- Charlie Munger
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
- Thomas Merton
What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
- Albert Einstein
The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
- Winston Churchill
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
- CS Lewis
I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
- Thomas Jefferson
For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.
- Barack Obama
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.
- Bishop TD Jakes