Quotes About Values

Don't think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you.

We're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.

You do honor her—and me—every day by being the kind of person we raised you to be.

But we aren't defined by the names we carry or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads. I know that now. We're defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.

We aren't defined by the names we carry, or the religion we practice, or the nation whose flag flies over our heads, I know that now. We are defined by who we are in our hearts, who we choose to be on this earth.

Would you have traded the life you've had with me for one with evil parents, just because it came with love?" "I don't know," Yona said. "You never gave me the chance to choose.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.

moral calculus isn't reducible to actual calculus

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

Prefiero ser el peor de los mejores, que el mejor de los peores

By the time a critical situation is reached, people are so embedded in the kinds of thinking, values, and behavior that led to the critical point that nothing less than a heroic effort on the part of the population as a whole can sway the course of events.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

More recently, the intellectual historian Gertrude Himmelfarb has maintained that justice, reason, and the love of humanity "are, in fact, predominantly, perhaps even uniquely, Western values."19

The story (...) suggests that we can't help caring about the traditions of "the West" because they are ours: in fact, the opposite is true. They are only ours if we care about them. A culture of liberty, tolerance, and rational inquiry: that *would* be a good idea. But these values represent choices to make, not tracks laid down by a Western destiny.

We lost the knowledge of God," he went on to say, "at the moment when we transformed the Ecclesia from experience into theology, from a living reality into moralistic principles, good values, and high ideals. When that happened," Father Maximos said humorously, "we became like tin cans with nothing inside.

Who says that taking the supposed high road is the best path?

there are biddies, always biddies, everywhere in this world, who are more concerned with the morals of others than they are with their own. A

Opt for a few at your side, but ensure your honor and respect of all.

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain.

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

A man should respect a man for who he is, not for the rank he wears