Values Quotes

“I've never played the game for money.”

“I am totally unattached to material items.”

“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.”

“Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards (the things we live by and teach our children) are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.”

“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”

“What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.”

“I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in, even if the reward is massive!”

“Material things ain't nothing. At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gonna die without it.”

“I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values, and follow my own moral compass, then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.”

“Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond, and that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defence than on programmes of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”

“Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?”

“What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.”

“After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.”

“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.”

“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

“Rules are not necessarily sacred; principles are.”

“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.”

“I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.”

“I could become very rich in Guatemala by opening a clinic. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two "I's" struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.”

“Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.”

“Our challenges may be new, but those values upon which our success depends, honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism, these things are old.”