Quotes About Values

An ideologue does not bend to what is popular, what will gain him power, or what is practical. He simply does what he thinks is right.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

My parents gave me a practical example of what life was about, and I won't forget that.

My parents taught me practical things, about how important hard work, discipline and the necessity of managing your own money were. Their values were very much the values of the postwar middle class.

Legacies are built on the practices of your company.

I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.

I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

Liberals may mock people of faith who believe he was chosen to protect their values, but I believe Donald Trump is fulfilling his pledges and I pray he will continue to lead with divine guidance.

Preaching Christian salvation is to preach moral absolutes. Hollywood no likey.

My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

I just don't like when you preach one thing and do something else.

Live your own life; practice what you preach.

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.

I mean, I just felt like Alabama fit me the best. What Coach Saban preaches about it all the time and what his players represent, I wanted to be a part of that.

You need to walk the line of what you preach. I have learnt that over the years.

Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.