1,638 Quotes About Values

We are all obligated to show respect, and we deserve to be respected as well.It is worrying when we see children don't show respect to their parents, teachers, and elders, and it is more worrying when adults don't take action.Catching this misbehavior from an early age and correcting it helps raise a child who watches his words and attitude all of his life, and so we raise a healthy human being who knows how to add to life, not to ruin it.

I’m not interested in what you say. I’m interested in what you do. But more than that, I’m interested in what you do when no one else is there to see it but you. And because I will never witness those moments, I hope that you do.

Victory is not based on the nature of any outcome, but on the fact that one stood by their values even in the face of the most devastating outcomes.

Sometimes I just sit and stare out of the window wondering what the world is going to do today. And my prayer is that what the world does today is based on Who God is every day.

If I somehow find that the truth is inconvenient, it’s because my ethics are out of whack.

It is the person of principle who has learned that to repel all of the temptations and lesser vices is to court criticism of the most scathing sort. And for the person of principle, it is the arrival of that criticism that evidences the power of the principles.

True integrity holds its ground even when such a stance means that you have let go of everything else that’s sitting on that ground.

Do not tell me about your principles, for words are easy to craft and talk is cheap. Rather, let me see you live them out in the sentence and syntax of everyday life. And let me see that not so that I know that you understand the principles that you espouse, for that is easy. Rather, I want to know that you understand the sacrifice of living them out, and that the weight of the principle offsets the sacrifice of carrying it.

Without a firm moral restraint and a bold adherence to principled ethics, nothing within the power of men will save us from the power of mankind.