Quotes About Values

My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

it is that a meaningful life is not a matter of speed or efficiency. It's much more a matter of what you do and why you do it, than how fast you get it done.

compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction—what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.

It's easy to say "no!" when there's a deeper "yes!" burning inside.

People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them.

The principles you live by create the world you live in. So when you change the principles you live by, you can change your world. Your mission statement serves to summarize the principles you want to live by.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They're fundamental.

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

Principles are not values. A gang of thieves can share values, but they are in violation of the fundamental principles we're talking about. Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is always going to be there—shared vision and values.

Remember, frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. Proactive people are still influenced by external stimuli, whether physical, social, or psychological. But their response to the stimuli, conscious or unconscious

Be Proactive. People are responsible for their own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than

One person's mission is another person's minutiae.

The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. Proactive people are still influenced by external stimuli

As we become independent—proactive, centered in correct principles, value driven and able to organize and execute around the priorities in our life with integrity—we then can choose to become interdependent—capable of building rich, enduring, highly productive relationships with other people. As

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Personality and Character Ethics

The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities

Nuestra conducta es una función de nuestras decisiones, no de nuestras condiciones. Podemos subordinar los sentimientos a los valores. Tenemos la iniciativa y la responsabilidad de hacer que las cosas sucedan.

Positive personality traits, while often essential for success, constitute secondary greatness. To focus on personality before character is to try to grow the leaves without the roots

Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

Integrity is walk our talk