Quotes About Values

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.

Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

I had many of the trappings of success. I was a lawyer. I drove a nice car and I had nice things. But "things" don't make a rich life.

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

Flood your imagination with vision... if your deepest needs, values and internal beliefs agree with your direction, then you're more likely to succeed.

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.