Quotes About Values

The problem with society is that the vast majority of its members consider the superficial things very crucial and the very crucial things superficial.

We don't need a better world, we need a better society.

What you stand for is what makes you stand out, not your standing. So, I never worry about my standing, only my stand.

Don Corleone Do you spend time with your family Good. Because a man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

Drive a mediocre car, but live in the best house you can afford.

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Tudo nessa vida acaba em bagatela e aquele que, para agradar aos outros se mata trabalhando por dinheiro, honras ou o que for, sem que a isso o mova sua própria paixão ou necessidade, é, com certeza, um tolo.

Unsere Narrheiten bezahlen wir gar gerne selbst, zu unsern Tugenden sollen andere das Geld hergeben.

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, even though this world is forever altering values.

It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

Highly valued traits that require no learning: 1. Honesty. 2. Focusing on solutions. 3. Being a source of positive energy.

Truth and transparency are always appreciated by honest people. That, in the end, is the only thing that matters.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for what they do with their lives are far less likely to become enmeshed in problems that inevitably weaken society.

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

Is this old-fashioned? Of course it is. It is as old as truth itself.

There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom.

character doesn't always result in the kind of success one wants.

It may be surprising to hear that parenting should be relatively easy. Getting our child to take our cues, follow directions, or respect our values should not require strain and struggle or coercion, nor even the extra leverage of rewards. If pressure tactics are required, something is amiss. Kirsten's mother and father had come to rely on force because, unawares, they had lost the power to parent.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

Only in America do people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.