Quotes About Values

But if the teacher does little more than dictate that information and then demand that students memorize and parrot it on tests, they are not learning democratic values. Instead, they are learning to survive as subjects of an autocracy: keep your head down, your mouth shut, and repeat the party line whether or not you understand it or believe it.

We must judge ourselves by a higher standard than effectiveness, the standard called faithfulness.

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I will not pretend that I find it easy to embrace this fact. Get me going on politicians who distort my faith tradition to win votes or on racial bigots and homophobes who want to translate their personal shadows into public policy, and this nice Quaker boy from the Midwest does a passable imitation of the Incredible Hulk.

I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do and how I do it, about the relationships I enter into and how I conduct them.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.

American's greatest deficit is no longer found in the federal budget. It is a moral deficit, and it may be found in a polluted and poisoned culture that has become the great enemy within.

Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

Are the styles we embrace a matter of taste, or of values rejected?

Leadership plays a significant role in creating culture.

I would rather have cookies in my jacket pockets than a chain around my dog's neck.

Money can buy a house, but not a home; a bed, but not rest; food, but not an appetite; medicine, but not health; information, but not wisdom; thrills, but not joy; associates, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; flattery, but not respect.

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

As far as she was concerned, aristocracy had nothing to do with money or social position. Aristocracy was linked to a nobility of mind, a purity of spirit, as well as inexhaustible courage.

You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time.

And, as his father liked to say, identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

Tag said solemnly, "You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time.

We have chosen a problematic name for ourselves: we are no longer souls as we once were, not even citizens; we're all consumers now, grasping all the stuff every which way.

I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

According to the "Cult of True Womanhood," a popular phrase during those years, a true woman possessed four cardinal virtues: piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity.

Am I acting like the person I most want to be? If not, what can I do to act like that person? Answer: Improve (make it a little better), appreciate, connect, or protect. Am I being the partner I want to be? If not, what can I do to be that kind of partner? Answer: Improve (make it a little better), appreciate, connect, or protect.

The easiest way to keep true to your core values is to invoke what we call the four core value inspirations: IMPROVE APPRECIATE CONNECT PROTECT Inspiration means "breathe in." If you take a deep breath and try to improve, appreciate, connect, or protect, you will find yourself back to what is most important to you.