Quotes About Values

Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.

Civilizations... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs.

Mai bine interesat de religie decit de chestiile in care,pe timpurile astea , se vira tineretul.

Bohemian and long on ideals, especially where the necessity of living up to them was someone else's.

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. And in the long run, it's better to please God—He's more apt to remember.

Why should "Honor thy father and thy mother" be a commandment, and "Honor thy child" not?

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person—hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre—into an outstanding performer.

If you're not guided by a clear sense of purpose, you're likely to fritter away your time and energy on obtaining the most tangible, short-term signs of achievement, not what's really important to you. And

Do your organization's ethics resonate with your own values? If not, your career will likely be marked by frustration and poor performance.

My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

life is not about what u look like but what u r on the inside.

Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

Choose friends by their character and socks by their colour.

Beauvoir lent Maheu a recent English novel she had enjoyed, The Green Hat , by Michael Arlen. She admired its independent heroine, Iris Storm. Maheu did not. 'I have no liking for women of easy virtue,' he told her. 'Much as I like a woman to please me, I find it impossible to respect any woman I've had.' Beauvoir was indignant. 'One does not have an Iris Storm!

For traditional Christians, the refusal to believe in moral absolutes is perhaps the most distressing aspect of postmodernism. The distress lies at the heart of what I called "the moral concern" with postmodernism in the first chapter. How should a Christian respond?

Christians ought to be troubled by the postmodern rejection of moral absolutes. But in responding, the first task is to get our own house in order.