Values Clarification Quotes

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.

You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'

Sometimes we need a personal crisis to reinforce in our minds what we really value and cherish. The scriptures are filled with examples of people facing crises before learning how to better serve God and others. Perhaps if you, too, search your hearts and courageously assess the priorities in your life, you may discover, as I did, that you need a better balance among your priorities.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.

Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I'm here to be, why I'm here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that's something I am always chasing.

Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?

I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can articulate the culture that we would want to exist in our family, and you can then, as the rest of life happens to you, you can utilize those things to help you become the kind of person you want to be.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

The problems facing humanity today are spiritual problems, and they can only be solved by taking a long, hard look at what it is we all believe.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

Teenagers have a natural curiosity and are keen to clock up experiences. What they need to be wary of is that some experiences may erode their sense of self and lead to a fragmentation of morals.

People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.

I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.

What do I want to do with my life?

Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

Only in the light of this agenda does it make sense that so-called “sex education” should be advocated to take place throughout the school years—from kindergarten to college—when it could not possibly take that much time to teach basic biological or medical information about sex. What takes that long is a constant indoctrination in new attitudes.