Quotes About Values

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

As a leader you must be sincerely committed to what's right rather than who's right.

Ethics and Attitude Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are. Character is more important.

A person who values winning above anything will do anything to win. And such people are threats to their organizations.

Too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.

Never lie. Never cheat. Never steal.

Some people today may think these are naive or kind of corny. But think a moment about what they mean and who you become if you abide by them. That isn't naive. You don't become corny.

Now parents will say, "We're just trying to make ends meet," and they're telling the truth. But if you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you're going to hurt those youngsters you're working so hard to buy material things for.

If we are not true to ourselves, we cannot be true to others—our wife or husband, our family, our profession and colleagues

True happiness comes from the things that cannot be taken away from you. Making the full effort to do the right thing can never be taken away from you.

Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.

Your family is what counts, and you must always remember that as you get caught up in your own professional responsibilities.

I'm very proud of the fact that while all the records were being set at UCLA by our basketball teams, I felt exactly the same way. Family is first. Always. Always.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are. Reputation is what people say you are.

principle, per-sis tence, and compassion—three

It is most difficult in my mind, to seperate success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Rather, it is bearing in mind what is most important to you so that it is not lost or betrayed in the heat and reactivity of a particular moment.

It is a hard message to swallow at first blush because it brings into question everything that we think we are, which for the most part seems to come from what we identify with, our bodies, our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, our values, our work, our expectations of what is "supposed" to happen and how things are "supposed" to work out for me in order for me to be happy, our stories of where we came from and where we are going and of who we are.

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable.

La pleine conscience signifie « faire attention » de manière particulière : délibérément, au moment présent et sans jugements de valeurs.

On the radio, I heard someone define ethics as "obedience to the unenforceable." Not bad. You do it for inner reasons, not because someone is keeping score, or because you might be punished if you break the rules and get caught. You are marching to the beat of your own drummer.

The best that could be left behind by any man: children who had been brought up to behave responsibly and to believe in something beyond their own self gratification. (The Americans

Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.

You do not have to be religious to be spiritual and moral.