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Values Quotes

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You will be confronted with questions every day that test your morals – Think carefully and, for your sake, do the right thing, not the easy thing.

– Dennis Kozlowski

You stand in your own light

– John Heywood

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

What do we live for it if is not to make life less difficult for each other?

– George Eliot

We wont even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level to be worthy of having or deserving.

We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we only have a dim or even inaccurate view of what’s really important to us.’

– Peter Senge

We must adjust to changing times while still holding to unchanging principles.

– Julia Coleman

Values tend to whisper, whereas feelings and emotions tend to shout.

Values are the gold that’s in each of us. They’re the real fortune of our organization.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

This above all: to your own self be true.

– William Shakespeare

The true purpose of our value statements is to guide both our behaviors and our decisions.

The soil in return for her services keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the full light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny … it is the light that guides your way.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

– William Safire

The only thing that matters, really matters, is that you can meet your own eyes in the mirror each day and know you have been true to yourself.

– BBC series “The Paradise”

The more investment you have in your beliefs, the harder it is to change them.

The life of a small group of people who live true to their convictions, does more and more certain good than all writings. Let us, therefore, young and old, direct all our actions as much as possible towards the realization of our convictions.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

– William James

So never be afraid, never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion; against injustice, lying, and greed. If you will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

– William Faulkner

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

– Leonardo da Vinci

Our efforts to do a better job of living our values will undoubtedly come with flaws. But if we meet those flaws and occasional failures with both persistence and patience, we can unlock the fortunes that exist within our organizations.

– Eric Harvey & Alexander Lucia

Our existence only attains its true value when we have experienced in ourselves the truth of the declaration, he who loses his life shall find it.

– Albert Schweitzer

Only ideas that we actually live by are of any value.

– Hermann Hesse

Never place loyalty to an institution above loyalty to yourself.

Life’s like a computer. When the going gets tough … reboot!!

It’s not what you carry “on” you (techniques, gimmicks, etc.) It’s what you carry “within” you (principles, beliefs, values, etc.)

It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time on acrimony and division.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

It is easier to SAY what we believe than BE what we believe.