Quotes About Values

I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person.

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

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

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

Without fathers you would have no civilization.

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.