Quotes About Values

You would be surprised. There are people whose sense of identity at the end of life doesn't go beyond: I own this house; earn so much; have four children; drive this car; have so much in the bank and so on. Maybe such identity is not enough for you.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

Sometimes you need to step back and think about whats really important.. the big picture is alot more important then temporary indulgences

renoncer à trois choses : l'amour de soi, la loi du père et la morale de la mère.

Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.

The greatest crisis in the world today is a crisis of leadership, and the greatest crisis of leadership is a crisis of character.

Traditional definitions of culture usually include such elements as people's thoughts, beliefs, values, speech, actions, and artifacts (man-made objects). These all fall under people's beliefs and actions. Therefore, I define culture as the sum total of what people believe and how they act on their beliefs.

Our worldview dictates what we think and believe is true. We hold our beliefs at two levels. One is our operating beliefs. They are the beliefs that we act on. These beliefs affect and influence our values and overall behavior. Our theoretical beliefs are the beliefs that we hold at a theoretical level. They may or may not affect our lives. A church's doctrinal statement or creed would be one example of a theoretical belief.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Solidarity is a beautiful word because it means that you reach out to those who are different from you and who have to cope with different circumstances because we recognize that we all share the same human needs and same values. It is the values that count most of all. The value of freedom of thought, the value of democratic practices, the value of respect for your fellow human beings.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Ideals may tell us something important about what we would like to be. But compromises tell us who we are.

Until Islam stops fixating on the afterlife, until it is liberated from the seductive story of life after death, until it actively chooses life on earth and stops valuing death, Muslims themselves cannot get on with the business of living in this world. Perhaps

both the immigrants from the tribe and bloodline and the activists of prosperity share a common delusion: they believe that it is possible to make this transition without paying the price of choosing between values. One side wants change in their circumstances without letting go of tradition; the other, overcome with guilt and pity, wants to help newcomers with the material change but cannot bring themselves to demand that they excise traditional, outdated values from their outlook.

Fiecare valoare islamica ce mi se insuflase ma invatase ca eu sa fiu ultima in lista prioritatilor. Viata pe pamant este un test si, daca reusesti sa nu-ti acorzi importanta in viata asta, il servesti pe Allah; si astfel vei avea intaietate in viata de apoi. Cu cat iti suprimai mai mult dorintele, cu atat mai virtuos deveneai. Dar Johanna, Ellen si toti ceilalti din Olanda pareau sa creada ca era firesc sa-ti cauti fericirea pe pamant, aici si acum.