Quotes About Values

Financial reward is important, but it shouldn't be your end goal - you'll reach your dreams much sooner if you focus your efforts on more important things.

The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it's all about the group. Those conflicting ideas were always a battle in my head.

When you are looking to be validated by others, you are living according to their values, not yours.

Find people whose morals and vision align with yours, and follow that.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

My family taught me something: I don't ask. What's yours, you do not ask for.

It is the duty of every parent, citizens, yours and mine to strengthen among boys the sense of respect towards women.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

Don't try to be somebody you're not because it doesn't work. If you try to be this perfect person or perfect persona of what you think that somebody should be when they're involved in public office, it's just not going to work. Just be yourself, stay true to your core values, and really just stay abreast of the issues.

You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you've got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that's the thing I try to get across to my players.

You also have to surround yourself with people who have the same dreams and values as you do.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

Development is not that you make bridges, buildings or put marble floors in your house. Real development is building moral character of youth.

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.

As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.