Quotes About Values

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Your daily behavior reveals your deepest beliefs.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.

We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

When you are faced with choices, you can achieve your dreams without sacrificing your integrity.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

Pour good into your children and they will become some flavor of right

I'm not producing movies to make money

Let your conscience be your guide.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

Life without decency is unbearable.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.