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Quotes about Values

    “The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals, to consistently act in accordance with what we believe our life is truly about.” ~ Anthony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within

      “When you know what’s most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what’s most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.” ~ Anthony Robbins, Awaken the Giant Within

        “When one of his workers asked for help in decision making, Gandhi told him, “I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starved millions? Then you will find your doubts and yourself melting away.” ~ Keshavan Nair, A Higher Standard of Leadership

          “Most of us reflect on our actions after we recognize that we have hurt someone or done an injustice. This is certainly a good first step, but it is reactive. We need to be proactive through disciplined and regular personal reflection.” Keshavan Nair, A Higher Standard of Leadership

            “By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Today Matters

              “Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you. ~ Arthur Gordon

                “The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Today Matters

                  “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

                    “Man’s chief purpose… is the creation and preservation of values, that is what gives meaning to our civilization, and the participation in this is what gives significance, ultimately, to the individual human life… The individual contribution, the work of any single generation, is infinitesimal; the power and glory belong to human society at large, and are the long result of selection, conservation, sacrifice, creation, and renewal — the outcome of endless brave efforts to conserve values and ideas, and to hand them on to posterity, along with physical life itself. Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back into an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.” ~ Lewis Mumford, Faith for Living

                      “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

                      If –

                        If you can keep your head when all about you
                        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
                        If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
                        But make allowance for their doubting too;
                        If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
                        Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
                        Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
                        And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

                        If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
                        If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
                        If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
                        And treat those two impostors just the same;
                        If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
                        Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
                        Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
                        And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

                        If you can make one heap of all your winnings
                        And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
                        And lose, and start again at your beginnings
                        And never breathe a word about your loss;
                        If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
                        To serve your turn long after they are gone,
                        And so hold on when there is nothing in you
                        Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

                        If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
                        Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
                        If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
                        If all men count with you, but none too much;
                        If you can fill the unforgiving minute
                        With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
                        Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
                        And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!

                        ~ Rudyard Kipling

                          “We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.” ~ John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold

                            “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” ~ Cicero

                            The Paradoxical Commandments

                              People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
                              Love them anyway.

                              If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
                              Do good anyway.

                              If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
                              Succeed anyway.

                              The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
                              Do good anyway.

                              Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
                              Be honest and frank anyway.

                              The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
                              Think big anyway.

                              People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
                              Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

                              What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
                              Build anyway.

                              People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
                              Help people anyway.

                              Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
                              Give the world the best you have anyway.

                              ~ Dr. Kent M. Keith

                                “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke

                                  "Live a good, honourable life.  Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time." ~ Dalai Lama

                                    “Every one of us receives and passes on an inheritance. The inheritance may not be an accumulation of earthly possessions or acquired riches, but whether we realize it or not, our choices, words, actions, and values will impact someone and form the heritage we hand down.” ~ Ben Hardesty