Quotes about Values

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

Choose your friends carefully, for you will tend to be like them and be found where they choose to go.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.