Quotes About Values

After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.

Happiness is not in the amount of money we make ……it is in the good things we do to better mankind.

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

Some services are too important to leave to the marketplace.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or health.

It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself.

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.

There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.

.....if he's not man enough to stand up to your father, and take the crap he has to dish out, then he's not good enough to be with you.

We could help the pulpit to understand that the miracle centered gospel is letting our values and culture down.

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.