Quotes About Values

Whatever makes men good christians, makes them good citizens.

The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

No matter how good the justification, I still see all the identities that divide human beings along racial or national lines as prisons. I'm not about to give artificial categories and man-made borders the right to limit my ties with other human beings and dictate what values I should or should not embrace.

Age eventually catches up and forces a person to reckon with what is important in life and what counts as achievement.

Because we have accepted the view that there is a trade-off between equality and liberty, we think we have to choose. Lately, we have come, as a people, to choose liberty.

The lesson of the Declaration's structure is that solidarity cannot be built without principle.

The only way a company can grow, stay true to its soul, and remain consistently successful is to attract, hire, and keep great people.

Harvard—a place, I slowly came to understand, that could teach me many things, including how to think, but that could not teach me goodness. Not because it taught the opposite, but because moral education is simply not what secular Western education or secular Western culture is for.

Black women are survivors. They have developed values over almost four centuries that actually seem to work. At a time when the problems of our society often seem insoluble and the obstacles to peace and freedom seem insurmountable, all Americans have a great deal to learn from black women.

Never have there been so many words and images coming at us 24/7. They come through our senses and enter our minds. But so many of them are worthless and lead to worthless thoughts. Never has there been a greater need to watch what we watch, to monitor what we see and hear, to protect our children from the enemy's assault through worthless things and images.

In other words, where Borg and Crossan stress the critique of large political structures with the values of justice and nonviolence, Jesus' teaching appears to address the local structures of relation-ships, neighbors, and manner of worship before God, while under-scoring love of one's neighbor and calling for just treatment of others.

If your policy is win at all costs then you are going to hurt people

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

You should not confuse your career with your life.

He always said his reputation is all of himself a man can leave behind when he goes back to the elements. Honesty and honor, he said, courage and grace. Those four are what make a man. That's what he taught me, sire.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

Having children doesn't make you a good parent, it means you had sex. That's all.

So content people may not have the best of everything, but they make the best of everything. That is who you want your children to be.

A natural saver is great until he never spends and is tight-fisted with giving. A natural spender is great until she finds herself deeply in debt and unable to give. A natural giver is great until there are no savings when a problem arises and there is no personal enjoyment of money.

Fun can be bought with money, but happiness cannot.

Si es un tonto y llega a hacerse rico, será el rey de los tontos. Si es generoso y llega a hacerse rico, será más generoso.

If you wouldn't want your mother to buy the item or the service then don't sell it.

People who change their values, their ethics, are not trustworthy and should be avoided.

We don't keep jerks; life is too short to work with them and really way too short to pay them and work with them too. Seems simple, but it requires that you fight to build an incredible team and culture from the moment you post a position until you celebrate their retirement. Every day every behavior, attitude, and execution has to be led well by a courageous, loving leader.