Quotes about Values

Integrity in an interdependent reality is simply this: you treat everyone by the same set of principles.

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.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They're fundamental.

Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

Principles are not values. A gang of thieves can share values, but they are in violation of the fundamental principles we're talking about. Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

The core of any family is what is changeless, what is always going to be there—shared vision and values.

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths, generic common denominators. They are tightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty, and strength through the fabric of life.

Be Proactive. People are responsible for their own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than

As we become independent—proactive, centered in correct principles, value driven and able to organize and execute around the priorities in our life with integrity—we then can choose to become interdependent—capable of building rich, enduring, highly productive relationships with other people. As

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps. When we value correct principles, we have truth—a knowledge of things as they are.

Integrity is walk our talk.