Quotes About Values

I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. I want to provide my children with some substance.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never been a good substitute for 'showing up' and embodying the message.

It's interesting, I'm from a really conservative, suburban town, and a majority of my family are very patriarchal. I mean, I love my family members, but they're slightly misogynistic, very closed-minded. But I'm sure a lot of us have families like that.

I pretty much believe, as everyone in the B Team does, that business must succeed beyond the bottom line. More important than profits is how you get to them. Measuring financial earnings and losses only is definitely not enough and has led us astray from creating a better world for all.

For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.

People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.

when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.

me the grace of God. They, as well as other powerful souls, were my spiritual role models. They didn't have great mansions or millions of dollars to leave me when they passed, but they planted the seeds of grace, the invaluable gift of knowing God.

igualdad es un principio inquebrantable de la tradición cristiana;

Hay formas de comportarse con dignidad moral incluso en circunstancias extremas

vertus héroïques en se référant à Okulicki et de vertus quotidiennes pour les cas rapportés par Edelman.

Ce que l'extrême et l'ordinaire ont également en commun, c'est que, ici comme là, la majorité des individus opte pour les valeurs vitales, et quelques-uns seulement choisissent l'autre voie. Ou peut-être : la plupart du temps, chaque individu opte pour les valeurs vitales ; mais n'ignore pas pour autant les réactions morales.

Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la justesse d'une pensée.

I don't have any moral position. Society, which has created all these sociopaths, has invented morality to protect itself from them. Count me out.

Humanity will one day be defined, not by the gifts we possess but the virtues we lack.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

Strive for integrity - that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way that is consistent with these values.

You fall in love with personality but you live with character.