Quotes About Values

THE MYTH: Money is the indicator of wealth. THE REALITY: Quality of life is the real indicator of wealth.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else's.' For

What more valuable possession does a homeless man have than his honor?

our dear old bag of a democracy" is sustained, not by itself, but by belief in something deeper and greater than itself.

For me the big questions about life are: 1. How should I live in the world? 2. Why should I live this way?

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular.

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

Aristotle also felt strongly that virtue requires action; mere noble intentions are not enough.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

the Kali yuga will dawn. A new age will dawn where nothing will be as it was. Only a quarter of the values instituted by Prithu at the dawn of civilization will survive. Man will live for pleasure, children will abandon responsibility, women will be like men, men like women. Humans will copulate like beasts. Power will be respected, justice abandoned, sacrifice forgotten and love ridiculed. The wise will argue for the law of the jungle. Every victim will, given a chance, turn victimizer.

Vyasa thus shows how confrontation and conflict does not necessarily happen when one is right and the other is wrong; it can happen simply because two people follow different value systems.

Neither Sita nor Ram let the forest erode their values. Wherever they go, they hold on to the principles of dharma. They may have left Ayodhya, but Ayodhya never leaves them.

All the things that we value—justice, equality, free speech, human rights—are actually concepts churned out of imagination, just like ideas such as God, heaven, hell, rebirth and immortality. We may classify these ideas as secular or religious, rational or supernatural, value one over the other, but they are essentially creations of humans, by humans, for humans. They are artificial constructions, not natural phenomena. They have no independent existence outside humans.

Often leaders are so consumed by their personal values and agendas that they expect their followers to be as excited about what matters to them. They get angry with followers who resist or refuse to keep pace. Those who align with their goals are celebrated. The rest are condemned as selfish.

It is easy to decide between right and wrong but it is difficult to decide between what is right and what is more right

Dharma must be valued over family or friends,' he

Within there is regard for the law of marriage; without there isn't any. Within, Sita is Rama's wife. Outside, she is a woman for the taking. Ravana knows that if he enters Rama's hut and forces himself on Sita he will be judged by the rules of society. But when he forces himself on Sita outside the Lakshmana-rekha, he will be judged by the laws of the jungle. Within, he will be the villain who disregarded the laws of marriage. Outside, he will be hero, the great trickster.

conflict does not necessarily happen when one is right and the other is wrong; it can happen simply because two people follow different value systems.