Henry David Thoreau Quotes

In L.A., it's easy to get caught up in what you look like or how much money you have, and those aren't values I want my kids to adopt.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

I am expected to be glamorous and untouchable. Like success would make me spoiled and entitled. However, I am just a normal dog-owning, horse-riding, meat-eating Oklahoman.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.

Man is worth more for what he is than for what he has.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

When the savages come to the city of Philadelphia and see the handsome and magnificent buildings there, they wonder and laugh at the Europeans for expending so much toil and cost on houses. They say that it is quite unnecessary, as one can live without such houses. Still more they wonder at the garments of the Europeans and their costly finery

We were poor. My mother got our clothes out of the free box at the church, you know? So much of when you're a kid is about relating about what you watch on TV. And who's got these cooler shoes, and 'Let's trade lunches.' And I was just like, 'I don't have a television. I have a rock and a piece of tofu.'

I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.

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

I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.

Man's earthly interests,'are all hooked and buttoned together, and held up, by Clothes.

Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.