Quotes About Values

In general, Quakers did not give gifts, as material possessions should not be given heightened status.

I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.

The last bastion of conservatism,' she commented, 'is food.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.

A culture finds the gods it needs

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.

Precisely why this downturn in social values should have come about is not entirely clear.

the church, like television, is always educating; the only question is, What is it teaching?

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.

Before you are old attend as many funerals as you can bear and listen. Nobody talks about the departed's achievements. The only thing people will remember is what kind of person you were while you were achieving.

Show me your calendar and I will tell you your priorities. Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you where you're going.

you always need to be teaching your children how to be responsible and how to think of others.

Yes, some people are so impoverished all they have is money.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn't take, he gives; he doesn't use force, he uses logic; doesn't play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what's in his heart, not his pants.

As long as I stay with my values, something valuable happens.

Your values never fail you. You fail your values.

Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality

We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education with social.

When many Christian teachers enter the public schools, instead of teaching the fear of God as the beginning of knowledge, they do just the opposite. They teach children not to fear God. In so doing, they contribute to the ongoing demise of the Christian faith in academics, politics, and the marketplace.

In the political war the enemy presents itself in its true colors. It is much harder to discern the enemy in the cultural war.

The cultural war tests the true commitment of the human heart.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Morality, Meet Singhji, is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.