Quotes About Values

The personal mission statement was important for me because I believe that you can't lead others unless you have a strong sense of who you are and what you stand for.

My father was just a hell of a guy. He had a real strong sense of honor, and he tried to pass that on to me. I like to think that I embrace that.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

My parents gave us a strong sense of civic responsibility.

My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

The priests say the new dawn will be like the rain that fertilizes the soil before we begin to plant our corn. It will renew the natural cycle of life. The Mayan people will once again flourish. I believe in this very strongly. The holy men say we are entering a period of clarity. We are rediscovering our Mayan values.

I do feel very strongly about my values and principles, but at the end of day I'm open-minded and I enjoy listening to other people's agendas.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn't believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

I write about the things I feel strongly about.

Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach.

People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

You have to believe in something strongly enough that you would lose your seat over it.

My family is not only not religious, but my parents are both - they're secularists. My father is actually an atheist and feels very strongly about it.

I just want people to hold themselves to account about what they think more, because I strongly believe that the way to live a moral life is to not allow yourself to have beliefs which are easy but which don't make sense.

One of the main reasons I come out so strongly for conservative values is not only because of my religious beliefs, but because it scares me to think how much divorce there is in America today, how many babies are aborted, how many broken families there are.

I have encountered thousands of value investors over the years and am constantly struck by their differences - and their similarities.