Quotes About Values

There are a lot of things about having money that are perceived to be cool but that aren't. Maybe if you're a CEO jerk who likes going coast to coast by himself in a G4, then that's fine. But that's not me. And it never will be.

We as parents, and the control culture, it is our responsibility to make sure we give the right perceived norms and the right cultural conditions.

There were some relationships that weren't quite in line with the way we want to do things and the way that we want to be perceived by a lot of people.

Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.

Modern morality is all about perception.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

It's so interesting, when you're a parent, you have these big ideals. Before I had kids, you imagine this sort of egalitarian society. You project this perfect world on the path you're going to set for your kids.

I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.

My mother means the world to me. She is my inspiration and motivating force. She has brought me up perfectly and given me the value and ethics that I still proudly believe in and follow.

I needed the time to go to college and spend years with people who aren't in the business and become a person on my own in order to be the person that I am and the performer that I am. I wouldn't give that up to be in blockbusters or have more money.

Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I don't think mothers want their 25-year-old daughters to marry 85-year-old men, except maybe for the money. Money, at least, makes some sense.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.

If a guy wants to take me out, he must seek my dad's permission first. That's just the way it works.

They have permission to play all the indoor games they want, but my daughters are not going to be competing in public sporting activities.

Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.

All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

I'm a good person and that's what I am at the end of the day.