Living on purpose and serving a higher purpose breathes life into you every day and gives you the desire to reach your goals. You need to live each day congruently by living within your beliefs...

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

All the practical principles behind the Innovator’s case for posterity, or society, or the species, are there from time immemorial in the Tao. But they are nowhere else. Unless you accept these without question as...

You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.

If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the...

Live your own life the way you want, not like someone else, you must set your own path in life because you have to live for yourself, someone else can’t do that for you.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life...

In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and...

I cannot give up on my values and beliefs for the sake of respecting someone else’s values and morals. Because those values explain who am I. I prefer struggling and even dying for what I...

Values aren’t buses… They’re not supposed to get you anywhere. They’re supposed to define who you are.

It is hard to dislike someone you know if that person is someone you value.

Religion can only be a means to a set of values cherished by its living adherents. If those values relate only to a past or a presumed afterlife, it is a sign that religion has...

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things...

If you don’t like how others define & label you, then work on your values. Embrace and practice values that you would like to be associated.

Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever greater number of desires to gratify, and to abolish as many...

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all...

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it’s worth trying to...

The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.

Self-esteem wasn’t the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

Service is not something you do. It is something you are.

It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. […] In...

Integrity – one word that means so much; costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world.

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for...

[I]t’s difficult to make people see that what you have been taught counts for nothing, and that the only things worth having are the things you find out for yourself. Also, that when so many...

All that is gold does not glitter…

Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people’s values, because most of the time people’s values are irrational and absurd!

That’s the thing you learn about values: they’re what people make up to justify what they did.

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It’s really your essence and your values that are important.

21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.

You have a hierarchy of values; pleasure is at the bottom of the ladder, and you speak with a little thrill of self-satisfaction, of duty, charity, and truthfulness. You think pleasure is only of the...

A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U.

In our culture it is a woman’s body which is considered important while it is a man’s mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

I have brought peace to this land, and security,” he began.”And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand...

Love sets the foundation for all human values.

Life has a way of filling up one’s time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

But why must the system go to such lengths to block our empathy? Why all the psychological acrobatics? The answer is simple: because we care about animals, and we don’t want them to suffer. And...

if you don’t respect the other person, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don’t know how to compromise, you’re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can’t talk openly about what...

We treat the things that soak up energy and resources like they’re valuable, and the things that generate them like they’re disposable. We don’t celebrate batteries. And I think that’s wrong.

Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought.

This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.

To show courage you must be in tune with your core values, understand your own fears and desires, committed to your integrity and tenacious in your ability to live it all in the face of...

People attempt to create association b/n you and your values. Oh, Mary- the girl who is caring; you mean the company with quality products?

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty–these are Christian values.