Quotes About Values

Dignity is of prime importance in successful living ... Give your life if dignity can be protected or restored. That should be the philosophy of all Filipinos.

You will go further, even if you may not acquire wealth, but you will be happier and well contented if you go via the straight path in life -- that is honesty and integrity.

Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You will live with the choices you make. The choices you make define your character. And your character defines how you feel about yourself. That image of you is projected in hundreds of ways to others.

As people and as a planet we suffer from upward mobility and downward nobility.

People in industrialized nations used to be called "citizens." Now we are "consumers"—which means (according to the dictionary definition of "consume") people who "use up," "waste," "destroy," and "squander.

Learn to choose quality of life over standard of living.

Who Is This Book For? This program works for anyone who earns or spends money—not because anyone can be rich, but because everyone can discover for themselves how much is enough . . . and have that. It helps you transform your relationship with money—and we all have one. In fact, "enough" is the radical promise of Your Money or Your Life.

Values are the chosen limits that allow our lives to deepen rather than dissipate.

Your dreams, values, memories, and stories make for endlessly interesting conversations. If you hear a dream or goal you like from someone else, steal it! p135

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world

put your life in service to your values rather than putting your time in service to money.

You'll flatten your debt and develop a natural resistance to spending more than you have for things you don't want to impress people you don't like (to paraphrase Robert Quillen).

Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging that the sins of America are the sins of mankind, and that our remedies are so often exceptional, then it only earns transitory applause—and a more lasting contempt that we ourselves do not believe in the values we profess.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

No hacen falta muchas razones para mostrar que la vida buena tiene más valor que la buena vida

Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.

Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choices and defines our character.

It is better to have little and be right than to have much and be wrong.

A Correct Message Is A Correct Attitude.Petra Cecilia Maria HermansSeptember 2, 2016

What is beauty? Is it the way her body's shaped, or the way she's dressed? But if the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.