Timeless Values Quotes

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.

Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

Schimmelpenninck is too virtuous for the century in which we live.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

If there is an art of living, it is not something that can be taught timelessly. We have lessons to learn from Aristotle et al, for sure, but not if we simply uproot them from their epoch and stamp them into 21st-century soil.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the ancient Greeks, Romans and during the renaissance. They will help make you good professionals.

The church that weds itself to the culture of the day, will be a widow with each succeeding age.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.

What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.