1,638 Quotes About Values

I choose not be what the world is. Rather, I choose to be what the world says I cannot be.

We could sum up thre entire message of this book in the following way; leaders stand for something - vision. Leaders stand on something - values.

Another way to strengthen connection to intuition is to refuse to allow anyone to repress your vivid energies... that means your opinions, your thoughts, your ideas, your values, your morals, your ideals. There is very little right/wrong or good/bad in this world. There is, however, use and not useful.

We all have some belief that drives our decisions. But have we really ever been driven to understand what that belief is so that we understand what our decisions are?

I would rather lose the battle to my enemy than lose my integrity in the way that I fought the battle with my enemy.

Despite the ferocity of the current, a river is always moving but it’s always in the same place. And much like a river, while we should surge forward with great ferocity, our principles should never move.

Maybe the last thing that we want to do should be the first thing that we choose to do. And in the society that I see unfolding around me, maybe that thing should be the surrender of everything that we are to everything that God is.

Integrity is the thing that binds together all that is good within us as a means of overcoming all that is bad around us.

I rather quickly discovered that to find the ‘easy way’ all I have to do is take the ‘right way’ and prune it down to the point that it doesn’t demand anything of me. But despite its rather dubious appearance of ease, what it ends up demanding of me is my integrity. And there’s nothing ‘easy’ about giving that up.