Quotes About Values

Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

Adrian: I find prostitutes vastly important. Nathan Ivashkov: Well. How refreshing to see that things haven't changed.

Dad, I've always made it a rule in my life not to pick fights with children, cute animals or ignorant old men. I will, however, make an exception for you if you ever touch or insult my wife again.

We try to do what's right, or rather, what others say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose

Rose: "Did you hotwire this car? Did you steal this car?" Dimitri: "You have an interesting set of morals. Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged." - Rose Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov

My principles are about love and doing it because there's meaning and commitment.

Most do," she agreed. "Me? My principles are about love and doing it because there's meaning and commitment. A piece of paper doesn't always signal that. If there's any sin involved, it's doing it in a . . . I don't know. Cheap way. With people you don't care about. When it's meaningless.

I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs.

las cinco necesidades más básicas de tu vida: un propósito para vivir, personas con quienes vivir, principios para vivir, una profesión que desarrollar y el poder para vivir.

Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.

They put serious investment into "soft" factors such as training and reinforcing their corporate values, which are backed up by meaningful symbolic actions on the part of their leaders.

A stable organizational environment with transparent values is conducive to employees' feeling confident that they can take the risks that experimentation requires.

The gradations are infinite and the silliest mistake of all is to define people by their material possessions. It's even worse if people define themselves by money. When

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important than books, Miss Hunky... The name is Honey, Miss Honey said. Now look at me, Mrs Wormwood said. Then look at you. You chose books. I chose looks.

It was an unhappy truth, he told himself, that nearly all people in the world behave badly when there is something really big at stake.

Life is too short to help make a world you don't want to live in.)

Our eschatology shapes our ethics. Eschatology is about last things. Ethics are about how you live. What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

My wife, Kristen, and I often talk about raising our kids in such a way that they have as little as possible to unlearn later on in life.

MR. CALHOUN.   Never, never. MR. WEBSTER.   What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN.   Always, always. MR. WEBSTER.   And I honor him for it.

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

Telling the truth is not a magic formula for having a smooth life. But living a life of integrity is actually easier than living one built around deceit and distortion.

These aspects of masculinity include strength, discipline, courage, passion, persistence, and integrity.