Quotes About Values

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

I prefer to stay poor.

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

The Left have always preferred the state to the family.

Around 19, I got a girl pregnant. I really didn't want to get married, but I was raised with the belief to marry that person and take care of our child.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

People go on about how much players earn in the Premier League but once you've bought a nice house and car, what else is there to spend it on?

There is a strong social premise in our country and I feel today freedom is being misused and not used.

When you have premium brands, you have to have the right balance of communicating all of your values.

I never put a premium on making a living. It was never one of those things that was important to me.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

The day I don't attend to my nostrils is the day I will have forsworn that world and become a different person. Someone otherwise preoccupied. Someone who couldn't care less what anyone thinks of his appearance - someone for whom the material life has lost its appeal.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

About every other week, I sit down with all of our new Zynga hires and I talk to them for about 90 minutes, have an open Q&A. There is no formal presentation. I talk about our values, where they came from and why they are so important, and I ask them to challenge those values.

I think our leadership is now seized of the fact that we have a problem with the youth vote and it might be an idea to get into an intelligent place, both in policy making and in terms of the presentation of our values around freedom and responsibility.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

I get mad when people give me presents. I don't want them, I don't need them.

Yes, my parents brought us up like anybody else. We didn't get any more presents than other people.