Quotes About Values

Life isn't about having things, Grandmother. It's about being a decent person.

Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.

She would happily send a rat hurtling to its doom and yet risk her life for a duck.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

People feel at home with low moral standards. It is scruples that put them off.

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Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

Give me a business that's family-owned and operated anytime. And I'm talking about a local family, not one that lives in Arkansas.

We tend to give a moral weight to the things with which we're most comfortable, don't you think?

Those of us who lived under communism for most of our lives were looking toward the Western world because of its values, emphasis on democracy, individual liberties and freedom, and economic prosperity.

The Western world is having an identity crisis.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

I refused to pair with a Tory MP, I refused all foreign junkets and I've never had a drink in a Westminster bar.

I come from a background where there would be one mirror above the basin that was used by everyone in the house. If you spent more than five minutes in front of the mirror, you would probably get a whack. My mother was so strict that if anyone complimented me for being pretty, she would not encourage that discussion.

If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions for people, I am likely to shock some of my friends.

It strikes me as very odd for someone to think, 'You know what, if I put on a bikini, I may shift some more records,' but it happens. If people are comfortable with that, fine, but it's not something that would ever cross my mind.

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

Whatever things you go through, you stay true to who you are and your core values.

Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.

I don't even know what 'keep it real' means. I mean, where you live doesn't make you real, you know what I'm saying? I take care of my family, my friends and I live in a nice house and whatnot but you never forget where you came from.

I grew up in a middle-class family in Jamaica, I had no self-worth issues whatsoever.