Ronald Reagan Quotes

I think regardless of what your religion is or what you believe, you try to treat people in a positive way, and that's all you can do in life.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

We have to get serious about living within our means.

The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother has learned how to spend money.

Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

The primary use of knowledge is for such guidance of conduct under all circumstances as shall make living complete. All other uses of knowledge are secondary.

I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that things cost too much. The problem is that you can’t afford it.’ That’s when I finally understood that the problem wasn’t ‘it’-the problem was ‘me.’

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

When I was growing up, I never expected to be able to afford everything I wanted. There are certain things I couldn't afford. I didn't run around blasting those companies or those things. I just decided I was gonna have to, if I really wanted it, find a way to pay for it. But that doesn't seem to be the attitude today. The attitude today is if you want it, you should have it. And if you can't afford it, it's not your fault. It's the provider's fault because they're corporations and they rip you off and they kill you.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Take the cards out of your wallet. A debit card is accepted just about everywhere that credit cards are, and you'll be spending money you have - always a good thing.

That's where money comes from, you work hard and you earn and then you spend it on correct things, and Public Image is a correct thing.

My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I!