Quotes About Values

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Money buys everything, if there is no dignity.

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she'd add a fourth: "Deft tongue. And I don't mean a good talker.

What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money.

Librarians' values are as sound as Girl Scouts': truth, free speech, and universal literacy. And, like Scouts, they possess a quality that I think makes librarians invaluable and indispensable: they want to help . They want to help us . They want to be of service. And they're not trying to sell us anything.

Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others.

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

After all it is not what you make, it is what you keep or pass on.

Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.

When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.

Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

Grub first, then ethics.