Quotes About Values

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.

A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.

I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's the most important aspect of a person's life.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

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

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Anything that changes your values changes your behaviour.

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

Act with courage and dignity; stick to the ideals that give meaning to life.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

The best thing in life aren't things.

I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's not enough for others. For me, it is no sacrifice, it's a duty.

The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.

We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and minutes. We're spending them according to our values, whether or not we admit it.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

It matters not how long you live, but how well.

If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.