Quotes About Values

As a teacher, and as a woman. I do not think I will ever understand what kind of values can be involved in spending nine billion dollars–and more, I am sure–on elaborate, unnecessary and impractical weapons when several thousand disadvantaged children in the nation's capital get nothing. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

When morality comes up against profit, it's seldom profit that loses.

Things are done according to money these days.

An uneducated thief may steal goods from the train but an educated one may steal the entire train. We need to compete for knowledge and wisdom, not for grades.

Motivation is like fire—unless you keep adding fuel to it, it dies. Your fuel is your belief in your inner values.

A person's character is judged not only by the company they keep but also by the company they avoid.

Remember, a person's character is not only judged by the company he or she keeps but also by the company he or she avoids.

Intellectual education influences the head and values-based education influences the heart.

Worthiness is what gives meaning and fulfillment. Success without fulfillment is empty. That's like good looks without goodness. In life we need substance over form, not form over substance.

Lately..... all a girl desires from a guy is a GOOD SOUL(Standard of Ur Living)!!!!!

People have long been willing to trade freedoms for economic prosperity, which is where a compelling link to the promises (though not generally delivered realities) of neoliberalism becomes visible.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

My father was very big on marriage.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

and in a city, if you don't want to see anyone ever again, you can often dodge them indefinitely. Not so in Isle Madame. It didn't take long to see that privacy was not much valued here, and was not easy to obtain.

Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

We all value social relationships, but are there differences in what each sex values about other people? Women tend to value the development of altruistic, reciprocal relationships. Such relationships require good empathizing skills. In contrast, men tend to value power, politics, and competition. This pattern is found across widely different cultures and historical periods, and is even found among chimpanzees.