Quotes About Values

Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant.

No enterprise can become or rains truly great without a core set of principles to preserve to build upon

If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character

What the Shoshones valued above all else, and depended on absolutely, was the bravery of their young men. Their childrearing system was designed to produce brave warriors. "They seldom correct their children," Lewis wrote, "particularly the boys who soon became masters of their own acts. They give as a reason that it cows and breaks the Sperit of the boy to whip him, and that he never recovers his independence of mind after he is grown." In

In my interviews with World War II veterans, they sometimes tell me that the reason they fought was they had learned as children the difference between right and wrong and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed, so they fought.

The Setting and the People: Ohio "I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property."?Alexis de Tocqueville

But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state. Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape, swindle, kill, maim, torture and destroy. Bad thing. People also pop into bed together and cosy up. Good thing. If we think fucking is a sign of moral decay then we're a little bit stupid-stupid, aren't we?

Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.

Nevertheless, it seems clear that there are relatively few ranges of values for the numbers that would allow the development of any form of intelligent life. Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

A society in which the individual feels responsible for his or her actions is more likely to work together and survive to spread its values.

La mayoría de las constantes fundamentales que aparecen en las teorías están ajustadas con tanta precisión que si su valor cambiara aunque sólo fuera ligeramente el universo sería cualitativamente diferente, y en la mayoría de los casos resultaría inadecuado para el desarrollo de la vida.

Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

The world is falling down around our ears, and all these people care for is talking about fucking to women in short skirts and men with their shirts hanging open

There were other people here with at least some shreds of decency left, but working in a place like this destroyed your moral compass.

literature instead of cleanliness was next to godliness.

Life is a Business, by Worship of Human being, we Earn good Deeds'' -Samar Sudha

Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.

Majority does not mean Right. Minority does not mean Wrong. Always maintain a stand for what is right.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up.

There is time to compromise. There is time to absolutely abhor d word. Most times it is the latter. Compromise is mediocrity. Compromise is cheap.

It's not so much what we do that matters, but what kind of person we choose to be.

Unexamined thoughts, habits or action may offer some deceptive gain or pleasure but eventually it takes away something most valuable from our life, which we have ever wished for.

Suffering often clarifies what really matters in life.