Quotes About Values

Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

I've learned what is most worth knowing through living each day as it is given to me. It cannot be 'taught' but it can be 'caught' from those who live their lives right along with us.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.

Sic multa, quae honesta natura videntur esse, temporibus fiunt non honesta: facere promissa, stare conventis, reddere deposita, commutata utilitate, fiunt non honesta.

the conventional sociology of literature or culture, which modestly limits itself to the identification of class motifs or values in a given text, and feels that its work is done when it shows how a given artifact "reflects" its social background, is utterly unacceptable.

Successful American presidents project a populist image. They do not place themselves above their compatriots but strive whenever possible to show qualities typical of "average" Americans. If they have an intellectual bent, they do their best to hide it. To be likable, smiling, and unpretentious is all-important, to express the values of middle America an essential prerequisite for greatness.

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

Der Schiksal der Menschen wird davon abhängen, ob sich die Politik endlich bequemt, das Leben eines jeden heilig zu nehmen, oder ob die Hure weiterhin für jene auf die Straße geht, denen nichts heilig ist. Die Dame muß sich entscheiden.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

My dear countrymen, I hope that you will live to see the day when you learn to believe in other gods than a few movie whores and a couple of prize-fighters.

They agreed on five core values and wrote them down on a whiteboard in a conference room: customer obsession, frugality, bias for action, ownership, and high bar for talent. Later Amazon would add a sixth value, innovation.

Every company creates its own origin myth. It's a useful tool for expressing the company's values to employees and to the world and for simplifying and massaging history to give due credit to the people who made the most important contributions when it all started.

Everyone all my life has been telling me it's just a phase that will pass; that it's something I can be working toward for my old age instead of wasting time on it now when I should be making money. That was exactly it, except that all at once I no longer saw any sense in spending the best years of my life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part.

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

Your standards in life will define the kind of life you end up living.

I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.

Much of morality is peculiar to mortality.

Choices determine character.

In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.