Quotes About Values

I've always been extremely conservative, but I've never been mean-spirited.

I've always been a conservative first.

Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

I surround myself with incredible, capable people, and the beautiful part about the artists I've chosen to work with, and the artists that have chosen to work with me, is that we share the same family values.

I'm not a material guy, so I don't need to surround myself with wealth.

I don't surround myself with a lower quality of human.

I don't know how all of my friends vote; it doesn't come up. But it would be a lie to say that I don't surround myself with people who have a similar moral code to mine.

Surround yourself with people that really care about not just you, but also the world and the things that you believe in.

What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

Whether I live long or short is not the question: what quality that I surrounded myself is!

My parents never forced things on my brother and me: not our faith, not our sports, not our friends. Yet they taught us about surrounding ourselves with the right people: the kind of people we want to be.

We live by our values at Levo. We began by surrounding ourselves with passionate, values-driven people who had their intentions in the right place, and learned that like attracted like.

It's a very important part of my life: parents and church - and your surroundings.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

It's killing for fun or profit I can't stand. There's a difference between an Eskimo killing a seal for survival and some dumb broad strolling down Fifth Avenue in a leopard coat.

No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived.

The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.

Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.