Quotes About Values

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

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

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.

Action expresses priorities.

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.

There are more important things to focus on in life than how you look.

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

I now see what the really important things in life are and they don't relate to what I do for a living.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.