Quotes About Values

Aun así, él no sabía hacer las cosas de otra manera; eso formaba parte de un código ético personal, breve pero inflexible, que lo había acompañado a lo largo de toda su vida adulta y que podía resumirse en una frase: «Haz el trabajo y hazlo bien.»

Strike read how Chiswell the corrupt capitalist had been murdered by the Russian mafia after failing to pay back interest on some seedy, illegal transaction, while Chiswell the defender of solid English values had been dispatched by vengeful Islamists after his attempts to resist the rise of sharia law.

Always remember that there are more important things than being rich.

One suspects that the haste with which some performers and some writers brush aside the traditional-jazz renaissance reflects their understanding of the devastating effect that an insistence on the traditional values would have upon the world of modern jazz to which they belong

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

A nations moral life is, of course, the foundation of its culture.

How would your values and priorities change if you were told you had only seven days to live?

No one who ever follows their conscience ever does wrong. The consequences may not turn out as we intended; it may prove that we made a mistake. But that is not the same as being wrong.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

People and their values are almost infinitely diverse, and people will never agree on many elements of social arrangements that might be subjected to uniform rules of governance. Hence, the greater the scope of strictly individual self-determination, the lesser the scope of governance, and the greater the tolerance with which people live and let live among their fellows, the more peaceful and flourishing society will be

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

In short, if you are a boss, ask yourself: 'Who have I anointed as stars?' Think of your workplace more broadly and ask, 'Do we anoint people who bolster or bring down others' performance and humanity?

I find that if you take the opportunity to throw out a subtle reminder of the core values we are required to adhere to, the a**hole quickly backs up, swallows the words, and rethinks the tactic.

Use your calendar as a shield to encircle the most important things of life.

Proverbs 7:1, 3: "Treasure my commands. . . . Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Had there been no Bible, there would be no America as we know it.

The phrase American Dream has a ring of truth to it as a statement of American values. The United States is a proud country that has no aristocracy, allows no titles or royalty, announces in its Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal," and allows free enterprise to proceed with little government interference. However, it is also a country that permitted slavery until 1863.

had come to accept that the court was an important forum where society, through battle, finds out and defines what it stands for.

In a society that rejects absolute truth, the only vice that cannot be tolerated is the sin of intolerance.

More broadly, most of us believe that we have arrived at many of our deeply held beliefs through careful thought and do not want to recognize that if we had been brought up by different parents, let alone in a different society, our fundamental values and attitudes would be very different.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

But now that 50 percent of the young people are involved in some post-secondary education, the structure of the institution and its impact on values have become a matter of concern.

But people only complain about something because they are committed to the value or importance of something else.

In actuality, the sociopath is not without a morality; he is simply without the one we want.