Quotes About Values

You can have earthly riches, but you can still be poor spiritually.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge

In altre parole, uno degli scopi fondamentali delle emozioni è fornirci una scala di valori, in modo da poter scegliere che cosa è importante, costoso, bello o prezioso. In assenza di emozioni tutto ci sembrerebbe uguale, quindi ci ritroveremmo nella situazione paralizzante di non riuscire a compiere una scelta. Gli scienziati stanno quindi cominciando a capire che le emozioni, lungi dall'essere un lusso, sono uno dei fondamenti dell'intelligenza.

If someone is not treating you

It was not your choice to speak English. You didn't choose your religion or your moral values — they were already there before you were born. We never had the opportunity to choose what to believe or what not to believe. We never chose even the smallest of these agreements. We didn't even choose our own name.

right woman, the right man? Someone who wants to go in the same direction as you do, someone who is compatible with your views and your values — emotionally, physically, economically, spiritually.

at the heart of character is honesty and integrity.

It is only within the context of having properly developed your mind that you will be able to truly enjoy the achievement of your material values, including that of a more muscular body.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

mnogo je važnije pitanje: jesu li se ti gra?ani promijenili iznutra? ...

Pa što - zamišljeno je rekao taj - ljudi kao ljudi. Vole novac, ali tako je uvijek bilo... ?ovje?anstvo voli novac, ma od ?ega on bio napravljen, od kože, od papira, od bakra ili zlata. Lakomisleni... Što ?eš... I milosr?e ponekad zastruji u njihovim srcima... Obi?ni ljudi... Op?enito uzevši, podsje?aju na prijašnje... Samo ih je stambeno pitanje pokvarilo...

Homo sentimentalis [...] a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value, everyone wants to feel; and because we all like to pride ourselves on our values, we have a tendency to show off our feelings.

When young people's education is at stake, compromise is crime.

Porque el joven era consciente a veces de que el mundo en que vive es un laberinto de valores cuya importancia intuye apenas vagamente y que, por lo tanto, sólo pueden dejar de ser valores aparentes y convertirse en valores reales cuando hayan sido confirmados

Mas no seu processo contra a Europa, Sartre disse bem o que representavam essas coisas, os valores: os nossos queridos valores perdem as asas; olhando-os de perto, não descobriremos um só que não esteja manchado de sangue; os valores manchados deixam de ser valores; o espírito do processo é a sua redução de tudo à moral; é o nihilismo absoluto perante tudo o que seja trabalho, arte, obra.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

The family, rather than the individual, has always been and remains today the basic building block of our society, though its hold has clearly been weakening—one of the most unfortunate consequences of the growth of government paternalism.

Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

I really needed to have something in my life, because I realized there were other things more important than my career. So I love having my children and my family.

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

I have standards. Well, okay, they're love standards, but I have them.