Quotes About Values

Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Young people are not tabulae rasae. They have a sense of right and wrong. But if they're repeatedly exposed to certain themes, they are more likely to pick them up, to internalize them and have them become part of their sexual scripts.

This primary question of life organization is immensely important. If making money is the main goal, a person can often forget what his or her true interests are or how he or she wants to deserve recognition from others. It is much more difficult to add on other values to a life that started out with just making money in mind than it is to make some personally interesting endeavor financially possible or even profitable.

If a community bends over backward to be publicly liberal, it can give itself the bonus of private snobbery.

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

Don't forget that, Celia. There's more to life than flowery words and orgasms.

If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf.

There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.

El primero, nuestros padres a menudo nos educaron de maneras que replicaron ciegamente la manera en que ellos fueron educados. Y segundo, a menudo fueron apoyados en su educación disfuncional por las normas y valores sociales de sus tiempos.

It was only many decades after his death that some historians began to interpret Washington's values and beliefs, more from their own frame of reference, rather than by the extensive writings and utterances of Washington during his lifetime.

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The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

Maybe the unvarnished meaning of growing up is the acceptance that living out our values, and also winning the approval of those who have power over us, is an unfulfillable longing.

Acting on what matters means that we will consistently find ourselves feeling like we are living on the margin of our institutions and our culture. This calls for some detachment from the mainstream.

Community-as-problems-to-be-solved has some benefits. It values the ability to implement, is big on doing, has a certain honesty about it, and worships tangible results as the ultimate blessing. You might say that this is what has gotten us this far. It is not that this (or any other) context is wrong; it just does not have the power to bring something new into the world.

The challenge of values is not to negotiate the importance of one over another, but to act on them. The quality of feeling alive comes when we act on our values, and find a way to bring our own model or strategy for better organizations and communities into the world.

Nowhere is the nexus between statistics and data science stronger than in the realm of prediction — specifically the prediction of an outcome (target) variable based on the values of other "predictor" variables.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given a A for adultery. Today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.