Quotes About Values

For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be

I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.

I want a girl who respects herself. It means her standards are high and if I fit them then id be honored. If she's easy then what does that say about me?

I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values.

It's nice to be known as a good player. But I want to be known as a good person, too.

You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

I don't fight my friends... I don't care how much money you put in front of me, I don't care if you put millions and millions of dollars and you say whatever you want.

Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.

The question isn't so much "Are you parenting the right way?" as it is: "Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?"

As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.