Quotes About Values

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." — Jonathan Swift

An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life." —Author Unknown

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

We see elected officials pounding their chests, saying their vision of America represents the only real patriotism. To them I say that patriotism is not a cudgel. It is not an arms race.

The true foundations for those buildings are not brick and stone, but our Constitution, our rule of law, our traditions, our work ethic, our empathy, our pragmatism, and our basic decency. As I have seen over the years, when we cultivate these instincts, we soar. When we sow seeds of division, hatred, and small-mindedness, we falter.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

Author Bill Bryson has this to say about our national obsession with shopping-- 'We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

and placing emphasis on the kinds of values that a male-dominated society and culture wants to read about and wants to see in the works themselves.

When you betrayed someone, you didn't just betray them, you betrayed your families, your community, an entire way of life.

a politics based on cultural values and symbolism rather than bread-and-butter interests. When politics is waged on these grounds, elections are won by those who are most successful at "priming" our latent cultural and psychological markers, not those who best represent our economic interests.

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique ' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

To feel successful, you must be able to be honest about the things that are really important to you.

Leadership is not about doing what's popular, it is about doing what's right

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

If I could get a sense of the way your culture works by meeting just one person, who would that person be?)

Eliminate Bad Apples:

In the first two sections of this book we've focused on safety and vulnerability. We've seen how small signals—You are safe, We share risk here—connect people and enable them to work together as a single entity. But now it's time to ask: What's this all for? What are we working toward? When I visited the successful groups, I noticed that whenever they communicated anything about their purpose or their values, they were as subtle as a punch in the nose.