Quotes about Values

IBM stands for three things: the dignity of the individual, excellence, and service.

Success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time? How would I feel about my life if I knew what was ultimately important for me? Would a written statement of my life's purpose be valuable to me? Would it affect the way I spend my time and energy? How would a weekly reconnection to such a statement affect the things I choose to do during the week?

It also requires independent will, the power to do something when you don't want to do it, to be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

Look to yourself. Be honest with yourself first—the roots of your problems are spiritual, and so are the root solutions. Build your character and your relationships on the bedrock of principles.

But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.

If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. It

To live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy.

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.