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Quotes About Values

Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.
~ William Arthur Ward
When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.
~ John F. Kerry
Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right.
~ Joni Mitchell
When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.
~ Cal Thomas
The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.
~ Peter Cochrane
Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.
~ Glenn Beck
There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
~ Patrick Dempsey
I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.
~ Stockard Channing
Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.
~ Yiyun Li
It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.
~ Alan Bleasdale
You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
~ Austin O'Malley
I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective.
~ Barack Obama
...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
~ Clayton Christensen
Don't make your kids look hot and dirty and sexy when they're 5-years old! It's really not the place or the time. You're about 11 years early.
~ David Spade
How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.
~ Denis Waitley
Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Ma... dirlo così... come potrei. Come si può valutare una cosa simile... il disonore? Non dobbiamo valutare una cosa simile, signora. Deve dirmi che somma le piacerebbe avere.
~ Marguerite Duras
La morale è una convenzione privata; il decoro è una faccenda pubblica.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
La moral es una convención privada; la decencia, una cuestión pública
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
~ Marian Wright Edelman