Quotes About Values

For example, your child needs food, shelter, and attachment. He needs warmth and security. He needs to learn he is capable and can contribute. He does not need a tablet computer, a television in his bedroom, a miniature monster truck to drive

Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways they define a society and the values of that society. Librarians to me are the keepers of the flame of knowledge. When I was growing up, the librarian in my local library looked like a meek little old lady, but after you spent some time with her, you realized she was Athena with a sword, a wise and wonderful repository of wisdom.

Then again, could bed-hopping gods be any worse than the violent cartoons on TV today?

There are qualities to richness we all have to develop on our own. Money cannot buy a man a pleasant sense of humor, money will not make a man behave decently, and money cannot teach a man how to treat others with dignity.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

There is no such thing as pure relativism. Anything is seen from the eye of the viewer, from one of many angles or frames of reference. The fact that truth may be relative should not lead to the judgment that all values are on the same scale.

For them, work is a way to afford life, but not a definition of who you are.

But Mari, I just don't think I can justify a show-offish wedding. I've never been that sort of girl. I'm the 'Let's go to a third-world country and take care of orphans' kind of girl, you know?

Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis.

I was trying to find a paradigm for "rock and roll values." I asked Jerry Garcia for advice on how big an organization should get. He said I should stop hiring people once I started not remembering everyone's name.

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.

What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.

placing family needs above individual desires,

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

A girl is supposed to be able to admire her dad and compare all other guys to him. This helps to weed out troublesome guys because the daughter will know how she ought to be treated.

The real question is: How many men have the maturity and courage to lead you closer to heaven? If he does not have that quality, then you have no business dating him.

When you hold fast to your morals while dating, you'll also notice the relationships often end of a different note. If a guy is in agreement with your standards but things end up working out between you, the end doesn't taste as bitter. It's easier to let go. Stick to your standards, because if a woman needs to lower her morals in order to find love, then it is not love that she has found.

But if you hope to find real love, look for a guy who has morals, not one who simply tolerates them.

Don't be impressed by the fact that a guy doesn't pressure you. He doesn't get any points for that. It's his duty as a gentleman. Besides, he should be encouraging you to be pure, not waiting for you to give in.

people valued politeness more than truth

Culture is action, not words.

We're willing to lose some customers if it means that others love our products intensely. That's our line in the sand.