Quotes About Values

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

Children deserve to be reared in a home with a father and a mother.

I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.

My mother told me, 'Always do your best, ' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.

I never ask for nothin' I don't demand of myself. Honesty, loyalty, friends and then wealth

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

Count the cost first. Don't pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.