Quotes About Values

I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

There is always going to be bad in the world. I think that is what makes being good so important.

That which can be purchases at a shop is easily left in a taxi; that which you carry inside you is difficult, though not impossible, to misplace" -Agatha Swanburne

Something born from human pride and the quest for pleasure cannot be considered true culture.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

The problem nowadays is that, by and large, we do a pretty bad job of picking role models. We glorify actors, singers, athletes, and generic "celebrities," only to be disappointed when—predictably—it turns out that their excellence at reciting, singing, playing basketball, or racking up Facebook likes and Twitter followers has pretty much nothing to do with their moral fiber.

Nothing can be traded if the price is compromising of your character.

Pero las habrían confinado a la categoría de «indiferentes preferidos»: cosas que puedes tener y cultivar, mientras no afecten a tus virtudes y tu integridad moral.

What these cases of success in the hard sciences have in common is that they really do lend themselves to a straightforward logical analysis: there is a limited number of options, and they are mutually exclusive. Just like logical trees work very well in classic Aristotelian logic (where the only values that can be attached to a proposition are true or false), so strong inference works well with a certain type of scientific question.

Esteem your friends, revere your teachers, honor your parents, regard your supporters.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

Is happiness the aim?" "I don't know. I suppose I want my life to mean something. I want to do something good

It was one of life's rules – Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff –

The meaning of life. There is none. People search for external values and meaning in a world which not only can't provide it but is also indifferent to their quest.

But we kind of know that turning life into a desperate race for more stuff is only going to shorten it. Not in years, not in terms of actual time, but in terms of how time feels.

Couldn't aspects of how we live in the modern world be responsible for how we feel in the modern world? Not just in terms of the stuff of modern life, but its values, too. The values that cause us to want more than we have. To worship work above play. To compare the worst bits of ourselves with the best bits of other people.

Do not seek out stuff that makes you unhappy. Do not measure your own worth against other people. Do not seek to define yourself against. Define what you are for. And browse accordingly.

I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless.

Ha! The meaning of life. The meaning of life. There is none. People search for external values and meaning in a world which not only can't provide it but is also indifferent to their quest. That's not really Schopenhauer. That's more Kierkegaard via Camus. I'm with them. Trouble is, if you study philosophy and stop believing in a meaning, you start to need medical help.