Quotes About Values

La duda progresista (no retardataria) y bien manejada induce un sentido de modestia y es un buen remedio, si no el mejor, para la testarudez. No ser presuntuoso de las propias creencias, valores o ideología nos exime de la vanidad intelectual y el desgaste que implica querer siempre tener razón.

Qué es la autocrítica? Examinar las propias creencias, valores y comportamientos y descubrir lo inútil, lo absurdo o lo peligroso de nuestra manera de pensar.

Do not allow your clothing to attract attention. Seek not to please by the clothes you wear but by the life you live.

Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old androcratic values and delusional assumptions remain intact.

To figure out the internal values, Yamashita urges company leaders to look back in time and consider this question: Who have we (as a company) historically been when we've been at our best? At the finest moments in a company's history, Yamashita holds, its core values usually came shining through. But from time to time it may be necessary to revisit that past to reaffirm the company's higher purpose.

Products come and go, leaders come and go, trends come and go," says Yamashita, "but through all of that, you need to know the answer to the question What is true about us, at our core?

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

Seeing my dad forfeit promotions so he could have more time with my sister, brother, mom, and me gave me a role model in my dad that was more than a financial womb—more than a success object.

one could not choose one's family, but one could certainly choose one's manners.

That was America. What the radicals of both the left and right hated about it was its very humanity.

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.

We are given talent but we choose to have character.

Character is contagious.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.