Quotes about Values

There is no real excellence in all this world that can be separated from the right living.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude." ? Elie Wiesel

most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don't know where else to find them.

The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on, all speak loudly about what you believe. The beauty of thy peace shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul.

I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory making out and sleeping around, we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.

The preoccupations of seventeen-year-old girls--their looks, their clothes, their social life--do not change very much from generation to generation. But in every generation there seem to be a few who make other choices. Amy was one of the few.

If in fact I do believe these great things we say and sing together, then those little things (and what is not little by comparison?)

A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.