Quotes About Values

He who can be a good son will be a good father.

Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you.

A person who has no need of character is called characterless.

Many people chase after success. Others pursue money. But I think the happiest people on earth Are the one's who have found significance. The real question of life must be What has significance for you

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions-if they are to be moral-is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success.

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I come from a set of storytellers and moralists…. The storytellers were forever changing the tale and the moralists tampering with it in order to put it in an edifying light.

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

In the olden days, at least, they knew when to stop. " "Now they don't any more. In the olden days they had some shame as well." "Yes, now they ain't got no shame either.

When Father was dying, he said: 'Darya don't take on too much --you'll wear yourself out, you take on only the most important thing: to have a conscience and not to be bothered by it.

In the old days conscience was very important. If someone tried living without one, it was obvious right away, everyone lived an open life then. There were all kinds of people then, too. Some would have been happy to follow their conscience, but what do you do if you're born without one? You can't buy it with money.

In the old days, you could see it: whether a person had it or not. Those who had it were conscientious, those without it were conscienceless. And now only the devil can tell, everything is mixed up in one pile. They bring it up needlessly with every word, mauling the poor thing so much it's barely alive.

Tips for Being Mindful • Focus on what works • Keep an eye on your goals and values • Give up opinions and judgments in favor of facts • Give up expectations of reciprocity in the moment • Stop wanting • Instead of being right, lose the battle but win the war1

Spirituality centered in love is hard work, but it is solid granite. Because love doesn't insist on who is right, it isn't at risk when we are shown wrong. It simply is a commitment to a foundational set of values – and a values commitment is something that no one else can take away.

Dear God, give me the strength to hold fast to my dreams and the commitment to stop wavering in the face of adversity. Help me establish goals that are in keeping with my values and with Your intentions for my life. Amen.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

The Saturday Review is not a church paper. It's a secular paper. But, the other day, it said, "The desensitization of 20th century man is more than a danger to the general safety. There are some things we have no business ever getting used to.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

If the Core Values are the soul of the organization, the core Purpose (some call it "mission") gives it heart.

We're long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.