Quotes About Values

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

If you claim a standard, you have to live by it. Win or lose. Else the standard never meant nothing.

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert C. Martin

Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don't become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines.

Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it's not a question of giving up all values, it's simply a question of which values.

Amish are known to be abstainers, law-abiding. They're also deeply devout Christians. Why didn't they stop their truck and come back to help?

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Learning an alien culture from so deeply inside it, he could no longer accept the superiority of one particular belief or value system. To

You must alter your attitude toward your own generation. We like to imagine that we are autonomous and that our values and ideas come from within, not without, but this is in fact not the case. Your goal is to understand as deeply as possible how profoundly the spirit of your generation, and the times that you live in, have influenced how you perceive the world.

Un paso crítico en la creación de una eficiente cadena de mando es reunir un equipo calificado que comparta tus metas y valores. Este equipo te dará muchas ventajas: personas entusiastas y motivadas que pueden pensar por sí mismas; una imagen como delegador@, como líder just@ y democrátic@, y un ahorro de tu valiosa energía, que puedes reorientar hacia el panorama general.

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already halfway in the shit.

As much as I believe in tolerance and fairness, I have never lost a wink of sleep about being unapologetically intolerant of anyone who refuses to show respect for those around them.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.

he had grown up in the unspoken certainty that a man would put himself at risk to protect a woman as far she allowed; whether he liked her or even knew her was beside the point.

We may feel less a part of a cohesive society today not so much because of all the outrageous behavior we see reported in our media but because we are deprived of an accompanying sense of collective offense in response to the outrageous behavior.

I'd rather be a piece of work than a piece of shit.

In the absence of The King the Warrior becomes a mercenary, the Magician becomes a sophist (able to argue any position and believing in none), and the Lover becomes an addict.

he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right.

the inequality of values is constant. Gold simply is not brass or iron;