Quotes about Values
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
— Abraham Lincoln
Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
— Stephen Covey
We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.
— Stephen Covey
Life without decency is unbearable.
— Albert Nobbs
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
— Confucius
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
— Confucius
Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?
— Ezra Taft Benson
Character is what a man is in the dark.
— DL Moody
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
— Billy Graham
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
— Stephen Covey
Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children".
— Dallas Willard
A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.
— George H. W. Bush