Quotes About Values

My mom and dad, although they may not have had a lot of formal education, they were two of the most brilliant people that I know.

We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect women, for instance. To respect yourself. That you respect your name. Those are the kind of things we were taught.

My mom and dad taught me a lot. They kept me out of trouble and told me to go a better route. They taught me how to be a man, basically.

I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.

I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.

It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.

It's a crazy world, and I just want to remain true to myself, if that means I remain true to my core group of friends that I've had for umpteen years and being a mommy.

I was rich before I had any money. Being rich has nothing to do with anything monetary.

I'm not willing to compromise my goals for monetary value.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.

I like money, but it's never been about the money.

It's not always about the money.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.'

For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism.

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

All I'm saying is that, you know, whether we're worth a billion, whether we're worth a million, whether we're worth $1,000, it's what's in your heart. You know, $100 a month from somebody or $50 a year for people who may be in a less economic bracket, that's as important to the Lord.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

Intelligence is a moral category.