Quotes About Values

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

In society, the emphasis is more on creating a family, but not on will you be a good family man.

Never consider marrying anyone based solely on material or financial means. Have a pure heart and motives for being with someone and not a goal to use people for your own selfish reasons. It is better to be alone instead of living a luxurious life and wasting time with the wrong person.

Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

They who marry for wealth sell their own liberty

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well

It doesn't matter anyway, whether you've been asked proper or not. I guess I've heard of women who want fancy sweet talk and even rings and such, but I didn't take you for a woman who'd need that nonsense.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

Some things last." I faced him. "Really? And just what would that be?" "The things that matter." (Pg 126-127)

A group's preference for specific activities is one important way values emerge in a culture. The leisure habits of the rich are framed as activities to see and to be seen at. They prove exercise, but no exertion; they are a courtly site of sociality and pleasure.

Entretanto, mesmo o fogo mais ardente deixa apenas as brasas mais amenas. Bodas verdadeiras são construídas sobre valores e interesses comuns.

The cue allows more flexibility and control. But I imagine you'll prefer the mace—it's more moral." Clare's dark brows arched. "How can one piece of wood be more moral than another?

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

All I knew that night was that I believed in something and couldn't express it, while your team believed in nothing but knew how to say it—in other men's words.

I know it's wrong to generalize, but some cultures encourage certain traits, and the ones the iMozani'i culture promotes are ones I happen to like, so I felt right at home from the word go.

If the vision of perceived integrity isn't refreshed regularly, the engineers have a tendency to get lost in the technical details and forget the customer values.

La moral es la munición de la guerra. ?Moral no es más que otra palabra que se usa para todo. ¿Qué quiere decir? ¿Valentía o sanguinariedad, o no hacer preguntas indiscretas, o quiere decir lo que cada día nos dicen que quiere decir?

I dedided it was more important to laugh than eat. - Mary Todd after choosing Lincoln over a more wealthy suitor