Quotes About Values

Humans will market anything to make a fucking profit. Religion, war, love, hate, sex, violence, pain, humor, emotion... all for fucking paper. We are pathetic beings.

If his conversation is more about your physical qualities than your goals in life, he's not thinking long-term.

Most of us, when that time comes, won't be able to avoid the feelings that we somehow could have been better parents—that we could have done more, could have been more effective, more loving, more perceptive, or could have been better examples to our children. But we will have more peace of mind if we know we have at least passed on to them a few of the most important things in life—the values that will help them become successful, competent, caring, and ethical adults.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.—George Bernard Shaw

He liked familiar things, things that had been worn in by good people, people he could trust.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. Goethe

He remembered a speaker at a seminar who had put five large stones in a glass. Those were the important things in life, the speaker said and went on to demonstrate how the small stones, or less important things, could easily be put in and shaken down among the cracks. However, if the small stones were put in first, it was impossible to add the large stones.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Mildred was old-fashioned in a lot of ways, but family wasn't one of them. Blood didn't make someone love you. It didn't make someone treat you right.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath ' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

When a man only rings you late at night, when he only wants to see you late at night, when he doesn't take you out for dinner, or introduce you to his friends, or spend any time or attention on you, then this is not a relationship. This is sex.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most

On the challenging side, you may be modeling stress, a sense that external events are more important than family, or an overemphasis on "doing" and lack of time to just "be.