Quotes About Values

One pretends that manners are the formalisation of basic kindness and consideration, but a great deal of the time they're simply aesthetics dressed up as moral principles, aren't they?

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.

Live your epitaph

Don't care about day to day things, don't care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

Happiness is there when you are morally clear to yourself.

Life is not measured by the money we earn but by the love that we give away.

Depravity feeds on depravity, and with no sense right and wrong, there is nothing for them to hold on to.

Evelyn's New Age daughter will discover that a good shag beats hugging a guru any day." — Helen Falconer, book reviewer for The Guardian

I was working second shift and weekends, never seeing my children, and I felt like I was selling my soul to the devil for health insurance and paid vacations.

Be humble. Don't brag about your position, possessions, people you know, or places you've traveled. Humility tops the chart as the most admired character trait. Pride and arrogance are the most detestable.

Sometimes it's best to do what feels safe, and sometimes it's better to do what you know is right, even though the cost may be high.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

You have to wonder about people who worship a killer." Jack turned to Finley. "What the hell is this world coming to?

Why do you not want schools?" the commissioner asked. "They will teach us to have churches," Joseph answered. "Do you not want churches?" "No, we do not want churches." "Why do you not want churches?" "They will teach us to quarrel about God," Joseph said. "We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that.

I wasn't vegetarian yet -- I was young and my conscience still under construction. (Kelly Johnson)

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

Education that gives priority to measurement rather than values, to efficiency rather than conscience, to information rather than ethics, provides no barrier to barbarity and violence. The Holocaust was perpetrated by a society of the most disciplined, highly educated people on earth.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.