Quotes about Values
We only knew, somewhat abstractly, we were going to spend a year integrating our food choices with our family values, which include both "love your neighbor" and "try not to wreck every blooming thing on the planet while you're here.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Most families would sooner forgive you for going to prison than for moving out of Lee County.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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.
— Stephen Covey
The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there??shared vision and values.
— Stephen Covey
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.
— Stephen Covey
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.
— Stephen Covey
Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values, therefore, value principles!
— Stephen Covey
My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.
— Stephen Covey
Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
— Stephen Covey
compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction—what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.
— Stephen Covey
Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.
— Stephen Covey
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.
— Stephen Covey