Ron D. Burton Quotes

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

All I can go on is my own value system.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

To me, it's about always trying to make decisions that reflect my leadership and who I am.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

My moral compass is strong.

In those moments when priorities clash always stay guided by your values, not your perceived necessities.

Faith is the framework for living. It gives us the spirit and heart that affects everything we do. If gives us hope each day. Faith gives us purpose to right wrongs, to preserve our families, and to teach our children values. Faith gives us conscience to keep us honest, even when nobody is looking. And, faith can change lives; I know first hand, because faith changed mine.

Always get back to your core principles.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

The only thing you can never change is your values.

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.