Quotes About Values

ANY TIME I'M TELLING MYSELF, 'BUT I'M MAKING SO MUCH MONEY,' THAT'S A WARNING SIGN THAT I'M DOING THE WRONG THING.

how can I fill the bucket with the things that are really important to me?

Yes, I know we're all very busy, but what, exactly, is getting done? Are all those people running late for meetings and yelling on their cell phones stopping the spread of malaria or developing feasible alternatives to fossil fuels or making anything beautiful?

What will matter to me in six months, a year, five years? What is essential, and what is optional, in my life priorities?

Integrity is the only path where you will never get lost.

No me preocupará perder un amigo si tengo cien, pero si tengo dos amigos sí me preocuparé. No me preocupará perder mi trabajo si mi jefe número uno me despide porque tengo miles de jefes en periódicos de todas partes.

El artículo de David Brooks titulado «The Moral Bucket List». La

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." –Henry David Thoreau American essayist and philosopher, author of Walden "What gets measured gets managed." –Peter Drucker Considered "the founder of modern management," author of The Effective Executive "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike." –Oscar Wilde Irish writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

aunque en realidad responde a una completa y profunda falta de prioridades y de respeto por uno mismo.»

O] n average," Brad Wilcox writes, with the data to back it up, "Americans who regularly attend services at a church, synagogue, temple or mosque are less likely to cheat on their partners; less likely to abuse them; more likely to enjoy happier marriages; and less likely to have been divorced." 13

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

All of us respond to life based upon who we think we are and what we think we have.

Look at your relationship to money. What does it tell you about your relationship to God?

Do you see how money and time reveal your heart in relation to God and others? How you use time and money in your human relationships says much about your relationship with God.

This is pluralism: not a synonym of relativism, but rather an antonym. Pluralism accepts the moral reality of different kinds of truth, but rejects the idea that they can all be placed on a single scale, measured by a single value.

Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.

It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It

A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world." Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism "has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.

A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.

It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well.

As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism "has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.

A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better. Democracy

The point of politics is to keep multiple and irreducible goods in play, rather than yielding to some dream, Nazi or otherwise, of totality. —

But opposing evil requires inspiration by what is sound rather than by what is resonant.