Quotes About Values

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

I don't care about money.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

Ia tak mengerti kenapa banyak sekali teman-temannya buang-buang uang begitu banyak untuk membeli aneka beha dan celana dalam ajaib yang toh akan ditanggalkan juga dalam waktu sekejab.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

Principles do not much influence the unprincipled, nor mainly the principled.

You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

Alec knew who he was. He knew what he had done and what he had fought for, and he knew what he would fight for in the future. And he knew exactly who he loved.

I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.

It was a reminder that the past is a moving target, filtered through perspectives and values that change over time. Heroes and martyrs stand on shaky pedestals, even when, as in the case of Marcus Whitman, the pedestal is a seven-ton block of granite.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

It is not the way of a Comanche to beat his woman," he rasped. "Just as it is not his way to let her go away from him.

lots of money and the power it gives them. With others it's a person. I think that's the worst kind when it's applied to a human being.

Maybe it is from all of the processed foods in this country, or maybe it is hormones, but something odd happens to the American brain when we start to breed, and our weakness for stuff, stuff, and more stuff gets further inflated.

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right.

It seems important," she says. "It just doesn't seem wrong.

Biblical stories play an important role in the elementary child's search for answers.

Older children need a community of peers and adults with whom to begin forming a synthetic-conventional faith and to begin establishing for themselves a set of values, beliefs, and commitments that will guide their decision making and energize their wills to live out those commitments—a community that knows and lives its faith.

Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.

A billionaire Swiss friend had put it wonderfully when he said that having money merely emphasized what you were all along. If you were a poor son of a bitch, you'd turn into an even worse son of a bitch with money. But if you were fundamentally decent, then you'd stay that way - simply with a nicer bank balance

If you were on life support, I would unplug it to charge my phone.