Values Quotes - Page 12

The totality of your commitment will make you more efficient

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

We cannot glorify God when we refuse to celebrate others

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.

It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precepts of civilization. Along with their pretended sanctity, these commandments and laws would lose their rigidity and unchangeableness as well. People could understand that they are made, not so much to rule them as, on the contrary, to serve their interests; and they would adopt a more friendly attitude to them, and instead of aiming at their abolition, would aim only at their improvement.

Your calling should be your work

To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct.

We glorify God when we appreciate humans

To live a selfish life is the fastest track to catastrophe

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

You only get fulfillment when you work in your land of promise

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

Always be organized in adding value

That is the one thing that makes me a Democrat, I suppose - this idea that our communal values, our sense of mutual responsibility and social solidarity, should express themselves not just in the church or the mosque or the synagogue; not just on the blocks where we live, in the places where we work, or within our own families; but also through our government.

Everything in existence has a purpose

To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn't last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.

Only people who believe in themselves are able to do exploits

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

Our attitude to others dictate God’s attitude to us

In her focus on personal comfort, she had forgotten about eternal values.

When you are able to create values in yourself or in others then you have won the race.

You are moving in the opposite direction when your life is about survival only

Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned. And that is why many companies are willing to pay them in millions.

For your life to count, you need to begin to live for others

The primary thing that determines how effective your life is how you carry out your calling

Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength

Your values define who you truly are. Your true identity is the sum total of your values.

You need to combine your calling with your passion

Love is about sharing

Work becomes satisfaction when it is in the area of your calling

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

Teach them to understand biblical principles before converting them

Time is God’s given asset to humans

All forms of destructions all around us. Destruction in values, destruction in people, destruction in faith, destruction in elders, destruction in the pulpit, destruction in the youth, destruction in government, destruction in society etc.

Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.

Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that cause things to happen.

moneys value is only as big as the value you place on money

If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now. So, either people are not aware of their collective power, or their fears overpower their desires. The amount of money spent on the military-industrial complex in one year is more than enough to end hunger in Africa. Every problem on earth today has more than one solution. However, priorities are determined by values.

It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God’s principles in them

A young woman faces the decision of whether to marry a certain man whom she loves but who has deeply rooted, traditional ideas concerning marriage, family life, and the roles of men and women in each. A sober assessment of her future tell the woman that each of the two alternatives offers real but contrasting goods. One life offers the possibility of a greater degree of personal independence, the chance to pursue a career, perhaps more risk and adventure, while the other offers the rewards of parenting, stability, and a life together with a man whom, after all, she is in love with. In order to choose in a self-determined mode the woman must realize that the decision she faces involves more than the choice between two particular actions; it is also a choice between two distinct identities. In posing the questions "Who am I? Which of the two lives is really me?" she asks herself not a factual question about her identity but a fundamental practical question about the relative values of distinct and incommensurable goods. The point I take to be implicit in Tugendhat's (and Fichte's) view of the practical subject is that it would be mistaken to suppose that the woman had at her disposal an already established hierarchy of values that she must simply consult in order to decide whether to marry. Rather, her decision, if self-determined, must proceed from a ranking of values that emerges only in the process of reflecting upon the kind of person she wants to be.

It is either you are converting time into a product or into a value chain or you are killing, wasting and throwing away your life.

In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in southern France without a clock for one hundred and eleven days, monitored by scientists who wished to study the human body's natural rhythms in the absence of time cues. For a while, she settled into a pattern of thirty hours awake and twenty hours asleep. She described herself as being "psychologically completely out of phase, where I no longer know what my values are or what is my purpose in life."When she returned to society, her husband later noted, she seemed to have an emptiness inside her that she was unable to fully express. "While I was alone in my cave I was my own judge," she said. "You are your own most severe judge. You must never lie or all is lost. The strongest sentiment I brought out of the cave is that in my life I will never tolerate lying." A little more than a year later, Le Guen swallowed an overdose of barbiturates and lay down in her car in Paris, a suicide at age thirty-three.

We should see our calling as our life’s major assignment

Love is a rare and precious thing. Squander it at your peril.

You can discover your calling through the eyes of others

Your calling is in what you can do with human interference

Employment sells out the future life

It is important to build inner core, form beliefs and life values

The vicious circle of life is employment

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 limits and prohibitions upon desire as it can. Such a society is already implicitly atheist and so must slowly but relentlessly apply itself to the dissolution of transcendent values. It cannot allow ultimate goods to distract us from proximate goods. Our sacred writ is advertising, our piety is shopping, our highest devotion is private choice. God and the soul too often hinder the purely acquisitive longings upon which the market depends, and confront us with values that stand in stark rivalry to the only truly substantial value at the center of the social universe: the price tag.

Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.

The purpose of life has eternal consequences

God uses His people as instruments for breakthrough

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.

Don't spend on your pleasures. Invest in your capabilities. Get better!!

You can only derive pleasure from work when it is in the sphere of your calling

Never become bitter just because you were rejected by men

Fulfilling purpose is the major key to being productive in life