Quotes About Values

la línea divisoria entre la barbarie y la civilización nunca es una frontera geográfica entre diferentes países, sino una frontera moral dentro de cada pueblo; es más, dentro de cada individuo».

There is only one thing that remains to us that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life; but that is not the politician's way.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Step #1: Identify Your Signature Life Values

How do you determine your values? You do so by asking yourself the following question: "What's most important to me in my life that will make me happy and that will significantly enhance the quality of my life?

When you explore new job and career options, you need only define 1) jobs that would interest you, that you are or could be qualified to do, and that are in harmony with your career and life values and 2) industries that interest you. The T-Bar model is a self-brainstorming tool to help you answer the question, "What do I want to do?" On one side of the "T," you'll list jobs. On the other, you'll list industries.

Blame has to do with a crime committed in the past. Values is all about the present: who's good and who's bad. future—a fix that makes for a better tomorrow and drier cats.

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.

Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are.

MARRIAGE IS A UNIVERSAL HUMAN INSTITUTION. Virtually every known human society has some form of marriage. 1 While the norms of marriage in different cultures vary considerably, marriage always has something to do with creating a public (not private) sexual union between a man and woman so that socially valued children have both a mother and a father, and so that society has the next generation it needs.

Am înlocuit dintotdeauna, de când exist? neamul nostru, banul, care poate fi al oricui, cu onoarea, care nu-i decât a noastr?. Aceast? onoare se nume?te fidelitate. De îndat? ce vreo fisur?, oricât e mic?, se va ivi în edificiul mereu neterminat al continuit??ii noastre, se va apropia momentul în care el se va pr?bu?i în întregime.

Some just wanted to be on the side of the good cookies.

This guy is a real pain. I want to remind him that we're the good guys. We're not up at 4 a.m. because we like the way it feels.

What made the colony a realm distinct from the realm of the living was the change of symbols and, in certain cases, of values. The colonists had their own dialect, which was closely related to that of the prisons, and hence a particular ethics and politics.

La sociedad construida sobre el dinero destruye las cosechas, destruye a los animales, destruye a los hombres, destruye la alegría, destruye el mundo auténtico, destruye la paz, destruye las riquezas verdaderas

respected your mother, and she honors that.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

In the course of its development, civilization eliminates heroism.

A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there might be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

But basing a whole philosophy of life on what you would do in extremis does not seem to me to be right.

An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.