Values
197 quotes: 41 by Keith Craft, 156 from other voices.
Other voices on Values
- I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
- I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
- I will esteem a dram of goodness worth a whole world of greatness.
- If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become.
- If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.
- If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
- If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.
- In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
- In order to stand out, we have to know what we stand for.
- Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
- Inevitably, an individual is measured by his or her largest concerns.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Therefore, no American can afford to be apathetic about the problem of racial justice. It is a problem that meets every man at his front door.
- Integrity is what you are when there isn’t anyone around to check up on you.
- It is better to understand who you are than where you are going—for where you are going will almost certainly change.
- It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
- It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- It is the edge and temper of the blade that make a good sword, not the richness of the scabbard; and so it is not money or possessions that make man considerable, but his virtue.
- It’s not enough to have values without vision; you want to be good, but you want to be good for something.
- Justice is truth in action.
- Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
- Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things: narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
- Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Let whatever you are and whatever you do, grow out of a firm root of truth and a strong soil of reality.
- Live with thy century, but be not its creature; produce for thy contemporaries, however, what they need, not what they applaud.
- Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
- Many men do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.
- Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings.
- Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
- Men must be decided on what they will NOT do, and then they are able to act with vigour in what they ought to do.
- Mental and spiritual independence matter little if the things we own in the physical world end up owning us.
- Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So, while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house, but not a home, a companion, but not a friend.
- Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
- No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theatre of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
- No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
- No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.
- Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
- On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
- One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
- Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.