Values
197 quotes: 41 by Keith Craft, 156 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Values
Other voices on Values
- A boy measures worth in possessions. A man measures worth in character.
- A clear purpose will unite you as you move forward, values will guide your behavior, and goals will focus your energy.
- A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
- A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
- A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
- A man should first think of his character and then of his condition. Character will draw after it condition.
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man by one which is lower'than himself.
- A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
- A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
- A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
- A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
- Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features; any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
- Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.
- At the end of your life, is it really going to matter how many Likes you got?
- Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
- Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
- But above mind and above body stands character - the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.
- Character must be kept bright, as well as clean.
- Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.
- Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
- Consequences are governed by principles and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
- Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Do nothing for prestige or status or money or approval alone.
- Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.
- Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
- Don’t help people because you want something in return. Help them because it’s one of your values – or because you believe in them and their values.
- Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
- Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose and to commit ourselves to our goals and values.
- God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
- Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
- Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
- He who despises mankind will never get the best out of either others or himself.
- Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
- Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
- How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.