Quotes about Values

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there??shared vision and values.

In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!

My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.

Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!

compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction—what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.

Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.

The principles you live by create the world you live in. So when you change the principles you live by, you can change your world. Your mission statement serves to summarize the principles you want to live by.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They're fundamental.

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

Principles are not values. A gang of thieves can share values, but they are in violation of the fundamental principles we're talking about. Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.