Quotes About Values

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon.

on expensive dressmakers who made her luxurious dresses. But she was too mean to wear them: she saved them up at the back of her closet, and most of the time she wore an old mouse-colored housecoat.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Do you know what the main thing is—the thing a woman should look for in her man? She should look for a quality that's not at all exciting but that's rarer than gold: decency. And maybe kindness too. Today, you should know this, I rate decency more highly than kindness. Decency is the bread, kindness is the butter. Or the honey.

Jag skulle aldrig slåss för ett extra sovrum åt nationen. Jag skulle aldrig slåss för heliga platser eller heliga sevärdheter. Jag skulle aldrig slåss för så kallade nationella intressen. Men jag skulle slåss för liv och frihet och ingenting annat, slåss av bara helvete.

This war is being fought between fanatics convinced that their ends sanctify all means, and everyone else - all those who hold that life is an end and not a means. It is a struggle between people who believe that justice, whatever that term may mean to them, is more important than life, and those who maintain that life takes precedence over other values.

Being conformist and respectful as I was of the grown-up world and its prevailing values, and having no brothers or sisters or friends to counterbalance the personality cult that surrounded me, I had no alternative but to concur, humbly but thoroughly, with the grown-ups' opinion of me.

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

The things that truly define me can't be lost.

Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you

How to obey parents and listen to your mother's mind. How not to show your own thoughts, to put your feelings behind your face so you can take advantage of hidden opportunities. Why easy things are not worth pursuing. How to know your own worth and polish it, never flashing it around like a cheap ring. Why Chinese thinking is best.

Finish your coffee," I told her yesterday. "Don't throw your blessings away." "Don't be so old-fashioned, Ma," she told me, finishing her coffee down the sink. "I'm my own person." And I think, How can she be her own person? When did I give her up?

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.

Of course, you'll defend Jay, says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do. But Rango, you couldn't respect someone who surrendered an opinion merely to please you . It would be hypocrisy.

El lujo no es para mí una necesidad, pero las cosas hermosas y buenas sí.

The root of all dissention between friends is the quality of idealism contained in it.