Quotes About Values

As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity, charm, and success, and the more lasting moral values." Their creator did make that distinction, however, and so was constantly surrounding his characters with a mist of admiration and then blowing it away.

The activities you spent your time on yesterday were the things that were important to you. Calendars don't lie.

Manners that would keep you starving are no manners worth respecting.

I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets," said Sabetha, "than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy.

Nelson Family Values CLEAN thoughts, words, bodies SMART church, books, decisions POSITIVE attitude, actions, influence RESPECTFUL family, elders, peers LOVING children of God … And TOUGH

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

Equality and respect are woven into the fabric of the conduct and performance of iconic organizations and leaders. Period.

A good book appeals to what is best in us....

What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.

Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.

The form of the poem, in other words, is crucial to poetry's power to do the thing which always is and always will be to poetry's credit: the power to persuade that vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values, that our very solitudes and distresses are creditable, in so far as they, too, are an earnest of our veritable human being.

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

It's time for Americans to stop worrying about Kim Kardashian and figure out how we're gonna save our kids.

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didnt sign to Atlantic just for the money.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

I would love us to bring back our Juedo-Christian values and begin to teach those things, at a time other than a political election.

Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

I think you have to remember to do things for the right reason. Do the right thing, so you can be happy with all your decisions and happy with how spent time in the world.