Quotes About Values

I chose to leave my wife at the hospital after prematurely birthing our first baby due to incompetent cervix, which resulted in a fatality, to play in a football game. I felt like I had to prove to my coaches and new team that I was dedicated to winning and I wouldn't let anything keep me from that goal, not even my family.

Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

We are not willing to compromise our values in order to increase our market share.

I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.

Ultimately, for our family, the opportunity to spend increased time together, balanced with a return to academia, was one we could not pass up.

As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

The characteristic that every college football coach should look for in a wife is independence.

I keep saying this to everyone: 'Grand Masti' is a family film that the entire family needs to watch - independently!

To achieve important things, we have to sacrifice what's important to us. That's an idea that's very central to Indian thinking.

I'd never do a film that would hurt anyone's sentiments, be it Indian or not.

Je n'ai jamais quitté mon travail pour me "consacrer" à ma famille. La formule déjà me faisait horreur: dans consacrer je voyais sacrifice. Et il y avait con !

Everyone today is so fragmented. This isn't a country anymore. It's a collection of tribes, all competing with each other for jobs, money, media attention. When I was young, we were all Americans. Back then, we did what we had to, or what we could, to make this a better nation. We did what was right, what was moral.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

The fact is television doesn't simply reflect society's values. In important ways, it also legitimizes them. And more and more in recent decades it has made even the most dubious "values" and behaviors seem normal and routine.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.

there is a suicidal weakness in the relationship between the democracies and war; that our first reflex, when the alarm sounds and well-armed and determined adversaries trample our values underfoot, is to do nothing at all.

I see now that my feminism as a young woman was paper thin. I was possessed of the fervor of a born-again and had learned the rhetoric, but not yet examined myself enough to live by and through my values.

According to related studies, "fear-based" staff management techniques engender a hostile atmosphere, which in turn arouses fierce competition and seriously impairs moral values.

Edmund Burke, anglický filozof 18. století, napsal jednou svému pÃ…â"¢íteli: "Král sice pozvedne gentlemana do Å¡lechtického stavu, ale gentlemana z nÄ›j neudÄ›lá

Jedno je jasné: Å¡aty z muže gentlemana neudÄ›lají, ale naopak opravdový gentleman z?stane gentlemanem i bez nákladného odÄ›vu. Usuzovat z toho, že vnÄ›jÅ¡í dojem není d?ležitý, by vÅ¡ak byla chyba.

Je lepÅ¡í jít životem bos nebo v ponožkách a omlouvat to náboženstvím nebo krádeží zavazadla než si obout levné boty.