“Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory.” ThinkingWorldShouldMindUseEarthValuesHeavenEasyDifficultWealthSunAirSeaGloryFairsEnvironmentalPleasantGloriousSensibleProfitableGiverDelighted Book:Centuries of Meditations Source: Centuries of Meditations
“Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.” MenFeelsMindWould BeValuesGreatnessHigherGloryStandardsRaisedPracticalsHeightTemptedValue Of LifePractical Life Book:Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964 Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964
“John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use.” PeopleFirstsUseValuesWealthMillionsComputerGloryBuiltPaidDollarsApplesRuined Author:Steve Jobs
“The man who has given himself to his country loves it better; the man who has fought for his friend honors him more; the man who has labored for his community values more highly the interests he has sought to conserve; the man who has wrought and planned and endured for the accomplishment of God's plan in the world sees the greatness of it, the divinity and glory of it, and is himself more perfectly assimilated to it.” MenWorldCountryValuesGivenInterestCommunityPlansGreatnessHe ManHonorGloryAccomplishmentDivinityGod's PlanCountry Love Author:Richard Salter Storrs
“False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.” MenWould BeValuesRocksGloryErrorsEsteemVanitySeducingFrivolousScandalous Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“I've tried not to exaggerate the glory of athletes. I'd rather, if I could, preserve a sense of proportion, to write about them asexcellent ballplayers, first-rate players. But I'm sure I have contributed to false values--as Stanley Woodward said, "Godding up those ballplayers." The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” IfsWritingFirstsSaidValuesSunPlayerGloryBibleRateAthleteAlternativesPreservesProportionIf I CouldOriginalityNothing NewStanley Author:Samuel Beckett
“During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory, youth are in pursuit of something larger than personal passions, some values or ideals to which they might attach their imaginations.” SelfDreamMightValuesPassionImaginationYouthGloryIdealsPerfectionPursuitUrgesAdolescenceBoundlessAbsorptionSelf AbsorptionPersonalizedSelf Perfection Author:Louise J. Kaplan
“We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.” PeopleKnowsHeartMayReasonValuesHumilityDivineEgoGlorySimplicityModestyFreshnessNuisance Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton