Quotes About Values

Pasqo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

But finding work worth doing and having people in your life worth doing it for…doing the best you can every day…that feels honorable to me.

All the clichés turned out to be true: what once had seemed important no longer mattered at all.

Most of our default settings are inherited from our own parents. They are ingrained and programmed into us like a motherboard on a computer. They are the factory settings we return to when we are at our wit's end and not thinking and they have been installed into us from our upbringing.

Should a person wear the clothes of their enemy or the clothes of their hero?

I never wanted to fall in love. Only stupid girls compromised themselves that way, and I was too smart to sell myself short.

She prefers books to jewels and saris. She believes as I do.

He has no ABCD friends at college. He avoids them, for they remind him too much of the way his parents choose to live, befriending people not so much because they like them, but because of a past they happen to share.

Both her parents came from humble backgrounds; botht heir grandmothers had given up the gold on their arms to put roofs over their families' heads and food on their plates. This mentality, as tiresome as it sometimes felt, reassured Sudha, for it was something her parents understood and respected about each other, and she suspected it was the glue that held them together.

She prefers books to jewels and saris.

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

I tell my daughter Nyssa, you should respect my work and I will also respect yours when you grow up, "Work is worship" is what I have told her.

My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.

Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!

Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.

My dad is such a good man, hard-working.

For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.

I don't want to do something just for money or fame; I have to enjoy working on it! If I start to work for everyone and everything, I could not look at myself in the mirror again.

I have family, I work with a lot of friends, but you'll never find me saying, "Hey, let's get a drink at 8:30 [pm]."