Quotes About Values

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

We're all trying to live up to our personal codes, so we relate to people who we see doing the same thing.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised.

I have never tried to bear a judgment against my own father because I consider that, in our European culture, one does not judge his parents. Now, I have expressed my disagreements with my father on certain points, disagreements related to the way one should express things, something that has also to do with a difference of generations.

I will not compromise on anything related to protecting children.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old.

The objective of politics is always to build scenarios in which persons' horizons can be expanded evermore. Any political action that is aimed at restricting individuals' horizons is, as I see it, a regressive action in relation to the political values that I embrace.

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.

Relations between countries are built on values and interests and many other things, but at the end of the day, leaders are also only human beings.

I don't do things which are wrong according to Jesus. Like don't make 'bad' relations with anyone except your husband.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

People are the core of every business. Businesses are based on relationships, and relationships are based on people. I would go to an average restaurant run by amazing people over an outstanding restaurant run by awful people.

The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'

Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships with them. They must become architects of community, consistently demonstrating the values that their customer community expects in exchange for their loyalty and purchases.

Cultural relativism has made it so people don't know who they are anymore.

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

My family brought me up very well. I'm not one to boast, I'm more relaxed and focused on what I need to do.

It's a very relaxed approach at Sporting in terms of football. They pride themselves on bringing you up as a polite and respectful person. They would never get angry with you if you missed a pass but they would do if you were disrespectful to someone. There was no shouting.

I don't want to go home and tell my wife and my girls, 'I was gone last week because I had to do a press release.'

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.