Quotes About Values

In The Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle's philosophical enquiry into virtue, character, and the good life, his challenge is to manage our emotional life with intelligence. Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival. But they can easily go awry, and do so all too often. As Aristotle saw, the problem is not with emotionality, but with the appropriateness of emotion and its expression.

In the twenty-first century, the most successful leaders will focus on sustaining superior performance by aligning people around mission and values, and empowering leaders at all levels, while concentrating on serving customers and collaborating throughout the organization.

Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is "the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires."14

What allows people to have such a strong inner compass, a North Star that steers them through life according to the dictates of their deepest values and purposes?

Research by Harvard's Howard Gardner, Stanford's William Damon, and Claremont's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi zeroed in on what they call "good work," a potent mix of what people are excellent at, what engages them, and their ethics—what they believe matters.18

There is growing evidence that fundamental ethical stances in life stem from underlying emotional capacities

Lo pequeño es hermoso: economía como si la gente importase.

What you are about, is more important than who you are

We leave lucrative jobs to take low-paying ones that provide a clearer sense of purpose.

Caring less about things that used to matter because no one else seems to care. And that's the moment you start to see all those precious differences slip away." "So

Money is the consequence of doing the right things.

The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family --- that's the always been our way. We're old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby Jesus ever even burped milk'n sh*& yellow.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

When it comes to role models, as a person of faith, I think we all have one perfect role model. And when I'm asked that question, I point to God and to my faith. And that's where I tell my kids to look.

My family values are really, really important.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

Family is what matters. The health of my children is No.1. The relationship with my family, my wife, my faith – all of it is easily No. 1.

Family isn't an important thing. It's everything.

I think I'm a better person because of my family.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out.

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'