Quotes About Values

Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know.

Values: what makes our existence most worthwhile: safety, excitement, social recognition, happiness, self-respect, status. •   Life goals: the achievements we crave during a lifetime: career success, financial security, travel, adventure, marriage, children. •   Personality: a combination of character and temperament: honesty, mental acuity, kindness, generosity, bravery, commitment to hard work.

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart.

It costs your life," says Caesar. "Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

Everyone had learned to despise waste. It was creeping back into fashion, though.

It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.

Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

Oh, no, te cuesta mucho más que la vida. ¿Matar a gente inocente? Te cuesta todo lo que eres. —Todo lo que eres —repite Caesar en voz baja.

Because you have a weakness for beautiful thing and I don't" I say with an air of superiority "They would lure you into their Capitol ways and you'd be lost entirely." "Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness,

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

Nate was a great believer in never asking his employees to do anything he wouldn't do himself. Damn it. He hated having morals sometimes

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

Conservatism is a natural state because it accepts human nature as it is, rather than trying to fight it.

It is our sincere hope that this book helps support Americans who don't believe women in this country are oppressed, who know government is not the solution to women's problems, who don't believe marriage and motherhood are outdated institutions, who think men are as important as women, who think gender roles are good and exist for a reason, and who see the mainstream media for who they are.

When you don't have much, you hold on to what matters. You hold on with both hands.

I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'

The first and most important money lesson you need to teach your children is to put money in its place. Ask your children—even children as young as four or five—what they love most. Do not guide them, just listen to what they value.

Establish the work-pay-purchase connection. As far as I am concerned there is no age too young to start learning that money must be earned to buy the things your family needs.

People first, then money, then things.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

True. The school admin decided that a girls clothes were more important than her education.

It doesn't count if it's from friends, right?