Quotes About Values

Wealth should never be your goal in life. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be

But be careful not to let yourself slip into the situation where your goals concern only your business or making money. Think of your marriage, your children, and your friends as important areas in which to improve your life.

Mecbur kal?rsan?z,onurlu bir yoksulluk hayat? yaÅŸamay? öÄŸrenin,alt?nlar?n?z? mezara götürmek yerine dha önemli meselelere bak?n.

Also, he set great store on a man doing right by his family.

Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased

Americans don't fight for gold or oil or colonial conquest; we fight for an idea—liberty.

the U.S. Army's seven core values embody the very qualities contained in Paul's first letter to the church he had planted in Corinth: Leadership, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage.

He expressed by his action his indifference to money but he was not, Harriet now knew, indifferent to the lack of it.

Uma humanidade sem heroísmo é boa para Deus e para o mercado. Alguns contemporâneos, em seu cinismo, parecem não se dar conta disso.

I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.

The pillars of traditional healing were 1) connection to clan and the natural world; 2) regulating rhythm through dance, drumming, and song; 3) a set of beliefs, values, and stories that brought meaning to even senseless, random trauma; and 4) on occasion, natural hallucinogens or other plant-derived substances used to facilitate healing with the guidance of a healer or elder. It is not surprising that today's best practices in trauma treatment are basically versions of these four things

Quando não tem nada do que se envergonhar, quando sabe quem é e quais são as suas crenças, você alcança a sabedoria.

Wie man seine Zeit verbringt, das definiert auch, wer man ist.

Ketika aku melihat orang-orang yang berkarakter, yang mereka miliki adalah konsistensi.

My dad saved for everything that mattered—a washer and dryer, a new refrigerator. By the time I left home in Nashville in 1976, he still hadn't gotten a new TV. He said his "money wasn't right." When The Oprah Winfrey Show went national, that's the first thing I bought him—a color TV, paid for in cash

And when children don't feel respected by the decisions of their parents, their beliefs about how they are valued are crushed. (Dr. Bruce Perry)

You're just a typical little European from Ni?anta?. Not only were you brought up to look down on your own traditions, you also think you live on a higher plane than ordinary people. According to your kind, the road to a good moral life is not through God or religion, or through taking part in the life of the common people—no, it's just a matter of imitating the West.

Život se ne živi zbog na?ela, nego zato da bismo bili sretni.

The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with man-making.

Better a cheap coffin and a plain funeral after a useful, unselfish life, than a grand mausoleum after a loveless, selfish life.

Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low.

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger, says Beecher. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism.