Quotes about Values

You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

I've been told I'd get so much more work if I was smaller, but going out for dinner and drinks with my friend is more important to me than size.

Freedom must be continually guarded as something more priceless than life itself.

Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.