Quotes About Values

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

Enjoy your work and have ethical standards.

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

My dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest-working man I ever knew. It's because of him that I learned from my youngest age to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people.

We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

I want to be known for the work I've done, as opposed to where I go on Saturday nights.

People are realizing that what seemed important to them in their lives-materialism and consumerism-doesn't work at all to make a happy heart. It actually makes an unhappy heart. And an unhappy world.

I work with wonderful people who support me. And, my beliefs are that the business needs to serve the family rather than the family serve the business.

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.