Quotes About Values

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

My objective is not to play for money, as I just want to leave good memories. That is the most important thing!

In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.

Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.

I never did films for the sake of money alone or for any favour or obligation.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.

Observers may bemoan the lack of personal chemistry between Obama and Netanyahu, but international relationships needn't be love affairs between leaders. They rest on common interests, common values and reciprocity.

I know some people obsess about their appearance but I don't - it's not something that bothers me.

Something happened to the State of Israel. What was morally obvious in 1948 is not so obvious anymore. When the State of Israel was established, it was, for the parents and grandparents of these young Jews, a miracle. It was David and Goliath. We were the just cause. It was about values. We were small, but we were the good guys in the world!

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

Truth be told, in determining what you want and who you want to be with, you will be compromising in certain areas. It can be in the area of appearance or occupation or maybe even certain personality characteristics, but no one person can have everything.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

Mr. Ramsay was the head clerk; and as far as I am concerned I am for him. He never pinched the girls' arms when he passed them in dark corners of the store; and when he told them stories when business was dull and the girls giggled and said: "Oh, pshaw!" it wasn't G. Bernard they meant at all.

I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity.

1. In the nuclear age, mankind must develop a new political thinking and a new concept of the world that provides sound guarantees for the survival of mankind. 2. The world we have inherited belongs to present and future generations alike—hence we must give priority to universal human values. 3. Human life must be acknowledged [as] the supreme value. 4. Non-violence must become the basis of human co-existence.7