Quotes About Values

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

They say that men should look at the mother of the girl they intend to marry, Yvette said. Girls who did what I did should consider the wife a man has discarded or worn out, and know thye are not going to do much better.

You would say that he felt that money had made him holy.

Reactionaries seek to excise and destroy the deepest and most essentially human aspects of a nation's character; they promulgate its most inhuman and superficial aspects. They prefer the husk to the kernel. When they promulgate nationalism, reactionaries try to destroy what people share at a deep level; they recognize only what people share at the most superficial level.

It is not hatred that is wrong; it is hating the wrong thing that is wrong. It is not anger that is wrong; it is being angry at the wrong thing that is wrong. Tell me your enemy, and I will tell you what you are. Tell me your hatred, and I will tell you your character.

Discerning the Core Values is a discovery process.

Another central element is the list of candidate competencies that align with your culture and strategy. As experienced leaders discover, it's more important to hire for this kind of fit than for specific skills, so long as a person has the capacity to learn and grow (though it's best if you can find someone who's a match in both cultural values and skill set).

In leading People, take a page from parenting: Establish a handful of rules, repeat yourself a lot, and act consistently with those rules. This is the role and power of Core Values. If discovered and used effectively, these values guide all the relationship decisions and systems in the company.

For additional examples, read the Harvard Business Review article titled "Building Your Company's Vision," by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras. You'll notice that all the Values listed are phrases, not single words.

when we all went to the universities, when we abandoned what made us good & embraced what made us comfortable & secure, we lost something essential, knew we lost it & yet chose to lose.

The truth is that as the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Even more people today have the means to live but no meaning to live for.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we should choose the barbarians.

There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.

We must look elsewhere for Eden. Spring is good; but freedom and justice are better. Eden is moral, not material.

Il y a des gens qui respectent les règles de l'honneur comme on observe les étoiles, de très loin.

Jamais entre os animais a criatura nascida para ser pomba converte-se em abutre. Isso só se vê entre os homens.

Um dos livreiros para quem trabalhava, Magimel, creio eu, oferecera-lhe levá-lo para sua casa, fornecer-lhe um trabalho regular e dar-lhe 1500 francos por ano. Ter boa casa e 1500 francos, que boa coisa! Mas renunciar à sua liberdade, ser uma espécie de mercenário, uma espécie de literato-caixeiro. Segundo o modo de ver de Mário, (...) ganhava em comodidades e perdia em dignidade

Yesterday I was worried about a lot of things. Today I know what matters.

Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices

Don't think about who they [the Nazis] are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you [Mother Superior to Vianne].

And when we let the media choose our heroes for us, we are lost already.

Teach the boys how to be gentlemen and Marah how to be strong.

They both knew better. It was something to be ashamed of. Americans weren't supposed to take handouts from the government. They were supposed to work hard and succeed on their own.