Quotes about Values

What would you like each of the speakers to say about you and your life?…

I think it should contain two basic parts: vision and principles. Vision deals with the mental picture of what you are about. And principles deal with how you go about it.

whether it is with a business associate, a spouse, a friend, or a teenage child going through an identity crisis. It is character that communicates most eloquently. As Emerson once put it, "What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

In Habit 2, Stephen challenges us to envision our own funeral, and consider, "What would you like each of the speakers to say about you and your life?… What character would you like them to have seen in you? What contributions, what achievements would you want them to remember?

you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

IBM stands for three things: the dignity of the individual, excellence, and service.

Success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time? How would I feel about my life if I knew what was ultimately important for me? Would a written statement of my life's purpose be valuable to me? Would it affect the way I spend my time and energy? How would a weekly reconnection to such a statement affect the things I choose to do during the week?

It also requires independent will, the power to do something when you don't want to do it, to be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

Look to yourself. Be honest with yourself first—the roots of your problems are spiritual, and so are the root solutions. Build your character and your relationships on the bedrock of principles.

But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.

If you carefully consider what you wanted to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. It