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Quotes About Values

Spiritual crises happen to us every day. Most of them are sufficiently low grade, devoid of enduring consequences, so we pay no attention and keep on rolling. A spiritual crisis occurs when our identity, our roles, our values, or our road map are substantially called into question, prove ineffective, or are overwhelmed by experience that cannot be contained by our understandings of self and world.
~ James Hollis, Ph.D.
Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
~ James Joyce
YaÅŸad??? deÄŸerler yüreÄŸini ac?laÅŸt?rm??t? dünyaya kar??. Ama bütün umudunu da yitirmemiÅŸti.
~ James Joyce
God and morality and religion come first.
~ James Joyce
Some values can't be gauged. For example, every law-abiding American citizen is too precious to denominate financially. We should never surrender even a single life we could reasonably expect to save.
~ James L. Halperin
The veneration in which some people hold the gods says more about those people than about the gods
~ James Lovegrove
People are sold over this desk just like cattle in the Chicago yards, and for exactly the same reason: they've got the points the buyer wants. All right, now take a look at something that does concern you. See those greens? That means 'No Married Women.
~ James M. Cain
Before you can be a leader of others, you need to know clearly who you are and what your core values are. Once you know that, then you can give your voice to those values and feel comfortable sharing them with others." Arpana
~ James M. Kouzes
The leader who has the most influence over your desire to stay or leave, your commitment to the organization's vision and values, your ethical decisions and actions, your treatment of customers, your ability to do your job well, and the direction of your career, to name but a few outcomes, is your most immediate manager.
~ James M. Kouzes
Values and principles serve as the basis for goals. They're your standards of excellence, your highest aspirations, and they define the arena in which you must set goals and metrics. Values mediate the path of action. Goals release the energy. The
~ James M. Kouzes
Leaders must ask themselves, "What do I stand for? What are the principles that guide me in my day-to-day work and keep me here in this job, doing this work, and supporting these people?" Once affirmed, leaders must act out their values, demonstrating what they mean.
~ James M. Kouzes
Even with commonly identified values, there may be little agreement on the meaning of values statements. The lesson here is that leaders must engage their constituents in a dialogue about values. A common understanding of values emerges from a process, not a pronouncement.
~ James M. Kouzes
What you preach and what you celebrate must be one and the same. If they aren't, the event will come off as insincere and phony—and your credibility will suffer.
~ James M. Kouzes
If ever our people become so sordid as to feel that all that counts is moneyed prosperity, ignoble well-being, effortless ease and comfort," he warned, "then this nation shall perish, as it will deserve to perish, from the earth.
~ James MacGregor Burns
But secular-ism, more than any other single word, aptly describes the mental framework and value structure of the people of our time.
~ James Montgomery Boice
Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.
~ James Patterson
living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn't to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise, the best things might get left out
~ James Patterson
Your integrity, your dignity, your honor - they aren't for sale. Not ever. Not to anyone.
~ James Patterson
why does doing the right thing feel so bad?
~ James Patterson
My great ambition was to have my chilldren moraly, physically, and mentally as perfect as possible, Rose states.
~ James Patterson
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." - Theodore Roosevelt.
~ James Patterson
You have to stand for something, otherwise you'll spend your whole life on your butt." —Isaiah
~ James Patterson
The point wasn't to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise
~ James Patterson
Catholic schools in New York City.
~ James Patterson