Quotes About Values

I support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to.

I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.

I don't mess with Mase no more, because me, personally, I just go by a different standard than people.

My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training.

Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.

My faith and family has helped me a great deal in that it helps me to live to a different standard.

The thought of my children growing up in an America with less freedom, less opportunity, and a lower standard of living is a long-term pain I cannot and will not bear.

We often think our legacy will be our achievements. But often our legacy will be whether we set a moral standard.

My last name is all I have. I try to carry that to a high standard by setting high expectations.

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums.

When money becomes more important than any other standard, then we're all in trouble.

That's a big thing for me, being a guy that upholds himself to a high standard.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.

Every relationship I was in, I loved the girl. It's just the moral values and standards was off. I was loving and lying.

The world will try to make you think that being good is outdated and old-fashioned and that popularity comes from breaking the rules and lowering your standards. Don't buy into that way of thinking. As you watch TV or read magazines, you might be made to feel abnormal when, really, you are the one who has it figured out.

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high.

If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.