Quotes About Values

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.

Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.

My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother was a mentor by showing me an example to say that if women have tenacity, they can achieve whatever they have to.

With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

Tennessee is a program that I thought had a lot of tradition. A program that I thought stood for something.

Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.

There's things in the life that should be more important than just tennis.

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be polite.

If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

I know Judge Roy Moore to be not only be a man of character in spite of the tens of millions of dollars that are flowing into Alabama to suggest otherwise.

Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that's actually a good thing and it makes sense.

Human beings are made up of many different values, and sometimes those values are in tension with each other.

Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.

There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.

What do we do to just rebuild and focus on creating a big and inclusive tent, where we're focusing on making sure every child gets that fair shot, that every woman gets to compete on a level playing field, that we are true to the core values of our country, and we're making sure that we honor those values?

My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

'Conservative' is a term that resonates differently with people. For us, Tae and I take that as being modest. The easiest way to put it is, if there's a little girl in the audience, and she's looking at us, I want her parents to feel comfortable with her admiring us and looking up to us.