Quotes About Values

Practice abundance by giving back," and "Improve personal relationships," and "Show integrity to your value system." Vigil's dietary advice was just as bare of sports or science. His nutrition strategy for an Olympic marathon hopeful was this: "Eat as though you were a poor person.

Practica la abundancia mediante la generosidad», y «Mejora tus relaciones personales», y «Demuestra que posees un sistema de valores íntegro». La dieta recomendada por Vigil era igual de escueta, deportiva o científicamente hablando. Su estrategia de nutrición para un aspirante a maratonista olímpico era: «Come como si fueras una persona pobre».

To laugh at cheap jests is as base as to pray to cheap gods.

Bravery raises the moral and social conscience of a society.

Higher stage [regarding moral reasoning] parents do not use love withdrawal as a parenting technique and prefer discussion-based parenting (e.g., induction). Higher stage parents are less likely to endorse "conventional" values (e.g., obedience, manners, respect for rules and law) and are more likely to endorse values that promote autonomy and commitment to and respect for others.

Respondents who say that they want to find purpose and meaning in life also rate public-interest goals high in importance. Self-interest and materialist goals are unrelated to public-interest goals or to the desire to find purpose and meaning in life.

True self-respect, according to Mencius, is based on the vales of benevolence, dutifulness, conscientiousness, truthfulness, and delight in what is good. Bravery, in Chinese philosophy, is the quality that allows people to pursue those values, hold steadfast to them in times when they are challenged, and remain true to them when faced with conventional social ideals that conflict with full human excellence.

However, research with activists in the Civil Rights and antiwar movements of the 1950s and 1960s and of those who sheltered Holocaust survivors during World War II confirm that compassion, empathy, and social responsibility were core family values that motivated their actions. Once exercised in action, values of social responsibility and service to others may become integral to identity.

Although acting inconsistently with one's own implicit interests and developmental trends can sometimes pay off, the data suggest that those who ignore their deeper impulses, curiosities, and values typically experience sub-optimal outcomes. For example, the latter types tend not to be the ones who make a mark on history.

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

If you think the goal of life is to impress someone with your possessions or looks or intelligence or... then you are not living - - you are a circus act.

Pell thought both aristocrats and big businessmen to be "totally selfish," as Arthur Schlesinger, jr., has put it, "but the aristocrat at least thought of his grandsons, while the bourgeois thought only of himself."2

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

Righteousness can never be legislated. It is a matter of the heart.

Attentive listening to others is important regardless of their stations and positions. Wise people consider the deep meaning and true values of all suggestions.

We live in a generation where people will gladly choose a gold plaited piece of wood,over a mud clustered bag of diamonds . That's 21st century !!

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

It's not enough to do something. It's important to do the right thing.

Hastings sat back, extending his long legs. "It's not enough to do SOMETHING. It's important to do the RIGHT thing.

We may be poor, but at least we've always been honest." Something broke inside Han, and when he opened his mouth the words came spilling out. "We're

I'm thinking that there are other reasons not to murder people beyond the fact that there's no

No basta con distinguir el bien del mal. Necesitas el coraje necesario para hacerlo correcto, incluso cuando lo que más quieres en este mundo es hacer lo que está mal.