Values
197 quotes: 41 by Keith Craft, 156 from other voices.
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- Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
- Our ideals are our better selves.
- Our ideals mould our convictions. Our convictions determine our decisions. Our decisions shape our habits. Our habits fashion our future.
- Our minds cannot be empty; and evil will break in upon them if they are not pre-occupied by good.
- Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.
- Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Passion brings immediate joy. Values provide lasting meaning.
- People are more important than things.
- Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.
- Poverty is in want of much, avarice of everything.
- Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
- Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by its golden frame, or a book by its silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs.
- Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
- Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!
- Regardless of what you think or feel or wish to be true, true values are reflected in your choices and actions.
- Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
- Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into our affections.
- Seek virtue rather than riches. You may be sure to acquire the first; but cannot promise for the latter. No one can rob you of the first without your consent; you may be deprived of the latter a hundred ways.
- Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.
- Strict honesty, not only lies at the foundation of all success in life (financially), but in every other respect.
- Success is built upon loyalty, faith, sincerity, co-operation and the other positive forces with which one must surcharge his environment.
- Success is more than achieving your goals. It’s living your values.
- That government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- The basis for friendship, relationship, partnership – isn’t proximity or time spent together – it’s values.
- The best things in life aren’t things.
- The discovery of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
- The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
- The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
- The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things.
- The greatest calamity is not to feel far from home when you are, but to feel right at home when you are not.
- The measure of any man’s virtue is what he would do if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
- The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
- The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
- The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
- The question is not who is the most learned, but who is the best.
- The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
- The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
- The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
- The things that we love tell us what we are.
- The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.