Quotes About Values

You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'

I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is the complete opposite of: you do something a little nice, and you tell everyone.

I know my kids best. I know what morals and values are right for my children. I think we should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.

I didn't want to go out on dates on Friday and Saturday night, because I wanted to go to the Opry with my dad. I learned a lot being in the heart of the music business and made some of my best friends there.

I instilled in my children the importance of good values in business: hard work, determination, integrity, and optimism.

I'm getting optimistic. I think, as I talk to people around the country - they seem to get it. They want a return to those things that made America different and great.

I'm afraid I'm very optimistic - and moralistic.

We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first. I like to think divorce is not an option.

My mum and dad had creative jobs, but our family was a working family - so there wasn't an option of, 'Oh, when you're older, you're not going to have to work.'

Physical violence was never an option for men or women in my family.

There are a lot of differences between me and Daphne but I think she values family, which I also value, and at a time when women had only one option, she was as determined to make that happen as I am in my career I guess, and I think that was sort of my way into Daphne.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

There cannot be any company or organisation where 100% of the people are sadhus or mahatmas.

There are loads of good principles we've lost as a nation. Discipline. Organisation. Respect. I was brought up with those.

All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

The two main attributes of MindTree culture are high achievement orientation and high caring.

From the first-year students' fall orientation to the board's annual budget-approval meeting, everything a healthy college does requires a shared sense of mission.

I was brought up in a very traditional way by my grandparents in an orthodox Tamil-Brahmin family.

I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.