Quotes About Values

the best leaders tend to be missionaries rather than mercenaries.

Like me, she has scruples. Why is it that only people with money have scruples? Do we have no money BECAUSE we have scruples?

We judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

He's not that hot. And hotness only goes so far. After you've known someone a while, you stop looking, I think. Character is more important.

I think the message of goodness over beauty is a valuable one. I wish the world knew it.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, what you do—is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is the light that guides your way. —HERACLITUS

When meaning is honored at the top of any organization, it can be easy to bring meaning to our jobs. It's a natural reflection of meaningful values. If we are valued and appreciated, if our well-being is nurtured, we feel a part of a meaningful whole. But soulfulness can trickle up, too. It might be more difficult to honor meaning at work with little evidence from above, but it also might be more important to do so.

Sadly, we are losing the "soul" of our communities, ignoring the danger that when a community (or society) loses its soul, it loses itself.

No worthy end can ever really be accomplished with unworthy means.

There is a crisis of meaning in the world today.

...existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.

We learn our first lessons about money as children, and these shape much of our ideas about it. We learn these lessons from our parents, but from others also. But I feel as if I have always been taught about money by everyone, every day of my life a lesson, whether I want it or not, in what money is and does.

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything" Malcolm X, likely quoting Hamilton

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.

Hey." Levet gave a sharp flap of his wings. "It is supposed to be farts before tarts." "What the -" Santiago made a sound of disgust. "Oh, for god's sake, it's bros before hos.

The cars we drive say a lot about us.

One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and sex because they're the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel they must be sacred too. They let us experience the values we've chosen for our lives in one exquisite not of pleasure exactly but of oneness with all of existence and with our own personal relationship to it. Art says: "This is Life." Sex says: "This is Living.

One thing more, Leon. You say that life is meaningless, but I believe it's life that's sacred. I talk about art and sex because they're the most intense life experiences I know, so I feel they must be sacred too. They let us experience the values we've chosen for our lives in one exquisite moment not of pleasure exactly but of oneness with all of existence and with our own personal relationship to it. Art says: "This is Life." Sex says: "This is Living.