Quotes About Values

It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

It is not how you die, but how you lived, that counts.

Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.

Make sure you live a meaningful life.

deliberate about how they lived, wouldn't tolerate assholes, and always had each other's back. "How can I help?

All human life must be regarded as sacred, or one's own may be endangered as well.

And is it possible,' said Emily, as these recollections returned—'is it possible, that a mind, so susceptible of whatever is grand and beautiful, could stoop to low pursuits, and be subdued by frivolous temptations?

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.

The proper function of any school is to train character, and all its studies are of importance only as means by which this end can be attained.

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

They didn't need as many external rules as we did because they had internalised the standards of decency.

To start a new country, with new values and newly minted socialist citizens, it is necessary to begin at the beginning: with children. Schoolteachers in the eastern regions were immediately dismissed because their job had been to educate children in the values of the Nazi regime. Socialist teachers had to be created.

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Yeah. It's a Spanish thing. They respect age. They celebrate growing older. Not like in our country, where youth is perceived to be everything, and everyone over fifty is past it.

Ethics is knowing what you have a right to do, and what is right to do' Potter Stewart

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will.

there is a theme: Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all of our societies eventually will.

Un sistema amañado y poco competitivo suena mal si queremos vivir en una sociedad dirigida por personas de talento; pero si ese no es nuestro principal interés, ¿qué hay de malo en ello?