Values Quotes - Page 14

The principle of God is love and honor

The man smiled. "Harry is unique, for he was born with a special gift of sight, with eyes able to see things that are unseen. He has talents to move matter by the sound of his voice.

A firm ground helps kickstart a long leap of flight. So keep your foundation strong to rise high.

You cannot discover God without discovering people

Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.

Employment sells out the essence of life

Always appreciate the good in people

Values offer focus amidst the chaos.

Many crumble and forget their morals when presented with their pieces of silver. Standing up for what you believe has real dignity too.

Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.

Your destiny is connected with your calling

Don’t waste your youthful and active days on employment

Effectiveness of life is not in self aggrandising

Without struggle, success has no value.

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmental stewards than other peoples or parts of contemporary society] to justify fair treatment of native peoples, we imply that it would be OK to mistreat them if that assumption could be refuted. In fact, the case against mistreating them isn't based on any historical assumption about their environmental practices: it's based on a moral principle, namely, that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate or exterminate another people.

A thought is of a much higher value than an action.

You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose

Open your arms to CHANGEbut don’t let go of your VALUES.

You don’t count or matter when you don’t live an effective life

A further, albeit more complex, possibility is that our conscious selves might suffer from characteristic uncertainty about our true values, and gather information about them from choices we make (the Jamesian: "How do I know what I like until I see what I pick").

Those who possess time are often not aware of its value.

They may have told you that you are useless but I am here to give you a better report about you: You are not a mistake. You have the potential to do what you were born to do. Yes, you are not a failure! Know that God values you and He is on your side.

Greatness is the quality of time converted into production or value

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Is being a Republican really about touting "wholesome" conservative values? Or a particular income strata? And when you say you are 'conservative', what are you really 'conserving'?And what does it mean to be a Democrat? To be half of an aristocrat? Or to be half free? Or does it mean you are more liberal? To do or think what exactly?

We are capable of anything and everything

Living a selfish life is a recipe for disaster

Reproduce yourself and fulfill your calling

Life is fulfilling when you are being productive

It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in spite of mores, whereas the latter can turn even the most unfavorable circumstances...to advantage.... If I have not succeeded in making the reader feel the importance I attach to the practical experience of the Americans, to their habits, laws, and, in a word, their mores, I have failed in the main object of my work. -Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in American

Effective, true deep listening and honest dialogue is a gift a soul can choose to give. How easy or difficult that can be depends on the values you hold in your life.

It is only when you understand that God is in everyone that you can appreciate and treat them differently

Do not restrain yourself from fellowshipping with people, regardless of their age or status

You can’t make a difference if you are not trained in the principles of God

Love is about self-denial

Our fight was not for ownership of a fertile piece of land. It was about defending the sanctity of ethics and fairness and dignity --- about defending humanity. Those are the values worth fighting for. If we forsake those very values in war, we become the very thing we are fighting against. We become them. Then what do we have left to fight for?

An effective life is a life of purpose

Our fellowship with God cannot be established when we don’t recognize His people

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

The ability to be intense in whatever you do is a key factor in reclaiming your lost years

If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone will insist that they do not support male violence against women, that they believe it to be morally and ethically wrong. However, if you then explain that we cannot end male violence against women by challenging patriarchy, and that means no longer accepting the notion that men should have more rights and privileges than women because of biological difference or that men should have the power to rule over women, that is when the agreement stops. There is a gap between the values they claim to hold and their willingness to do the work of connecting thought and action, theory and practice to realize these values and thus create a more just society.

Use your resources wisely and spend quality time on developing your resources

The doctrine of waiting for confirmation is one of the greatest time killers

I don't want to become obsessed with work or money or change any of the values I have now. I don't have reason to believe that I ever should change, as much as I have this feeling of urgency to pursue my dreams...

Those with traditional sense will follow what their heart tells them is right.

All you do out of selfish reasons is a waste

Never compromise your values.

In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.

Good Values, when shared by all affiliates, are extremely motivating because everybody is performing with shared beliefs.

Every morning when I wake up, I wish the day will be productive. It should be filled with good things like writing something worth the thought, helping people, or even carrying out simple deeds like flashing a friendly smile to everyone. Well, why bother doing all these? It's because I keep telling myself to never underestimate the power of virtue, no matter how small it seems, it can make a difference.

You cannot have a cordial relationship with God when you reject people

A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal, in a green costume he's a hero who gets a parade and a pension. So that, as a culture, we remain in a state of moral insanity. To point out these contradictions to people in society is to be labeled insane. This is how insane society remains, that anybody who points out logical opposites in the most essential human topic of ethics, is considered to be insane.

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost

There is no interaction without God with interaction with men

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home

It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.

To live an effective life, you have to turn your back on the things of the world

You have to come to understand that your life is diminishing rapidly if you don’t convert it into valuable products.

The way we relate with people is the same way we relate with God