Quotes About Values

It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for.

Blades before babes, you know what I'm saying?

Dude, what was that? Blades before babes, you know what I'm saying?

It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for. -Josephine to Apollo (Trials of Apollo: Book 2 The Dark Prophecy)

Europeans marvel at how Americans seem willing, almost eager, to work themselves into an early grave. My European friends have told me proudly, "We don't live to work…we work to live.

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Remember, you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech.

God is far more interested in what you are than in what you do. We are human beings, not human doings. God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.

The book of Proverbs warns us over and over again about negative associations. Constant exposure to wrong attitudes and wrong values will eventually take its toll in our lives. It is always easier to pull someone down than it is to lift him up. What kind of friends should you have? The kind who bring out the best in you, who lift you up, who encourage you, who make you a better person.

Our culture says, "If you don't own it, you won't take care of it." But Christians live by a higher standard: "Because God owns it, I must take the best care of it that I can." The Bible says, "Those who are trusted with something valuable must show they are worthy of that trust.

El denominador común del liderazgo, es la integridad.

el fundamento del liderazgo es el carácter; no el carisma, ni los estudios o los talentos, sino el carácter.

Las personas son más importantes que el dinero.

Realizing that life on earth is just a temporary assignment should radically alter your values. Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions. As C. S. Lewis observed, "All that is not eternal is eternally useless." The Bible says, "We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

It's the side of reason that I'm on," Teddy said. "It just so happens that that's where you're always to be found and my mother rarely.

Buying and selling, that's all people did. You could buy women, you could buy kids, you could buy anything. Western civilization had had a good run but now it had pretty much shopped itself out of existence.

Daddy said he would rather we were alive and cowards than dead and heroes.

Moral codes are useful only when we have descended to needing them.

How's this: Is it possible, do you think, to be queer when you haven't had sex in years? Or how about his one: Are words themselves a danger in the defining of community? Can we solve the problem of suffocating identity politics by allowing anyone at all to define the identities being politicized? Or would a better solution be the abandonment of politicized identities in favor of the politics of values?

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

And the ladies, selecting with dainty and discriminating fingers and a little greedily, all declared that Mr. Pontellier was the best husband in the world. Mrs. Pontellier was forced to admit that she knew of none better.

Edna had once told Madame Ratignolle that she would never sacrifice herself for her children; or for anyone. I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.