Quotes About Values

A god who cares more about a little water on the head than my daughter's character is not a deity I want her to spend eternity with.

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?

Story is the primary way we impart what really matters to the next generation.

we must become bards: poets charged with the task of keeping and imparting the stories, language, values, and beliefs of a culture.

To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

I don't care how busy I am - I will always make time for what's most important to me.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.