Values Quotes
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
1240David Arenson
Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams.
2874 Deepak Chopra
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
1933 Lolly Daskal
Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.
4868 Lolly Daskal
The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.
4699 Lolly Daskal
Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.
3932 John Ratzenberger
Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
2794 Daniel Willey
Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for.
4282 Max McKeown
Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.
2458 Turcois Ominek
Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.
4856 Eda J. LeShan
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
1519 Cormac McCarthy
I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.
4725 Parker J. Palmer
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.
2417 Dorothy L. Sayers
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.
3668 Dorothy L. Sayers
The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.
3621 Dorothy L. Sayers
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.
2884 Jostein Gaarder
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience-and the truth- higher than life.
3557 Alain De Botton
Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.
4697 Deborah Day
One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.
3297 David Lee Roth
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.
1064 Gretchen Rubin
By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.
2701 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom
4877 Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.
2464 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today - gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
1754 Bauvard
The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
4085 Alexander Pope
The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,
Are what ten thousand envy and adore:
All, all look up, with reverential Awe,
At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:
While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`
'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy'
- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I
3705 Vijaya Bharathy
If values are woven into the very concept of education, where is the need for separate value education?
2810 Anum Sattar
It amazes me when education, religion and family values fail to create a human being.
1440 Richard Bach
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
2157 Joe Clifford Faust
If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.
3999 Renee Wade
You don't need a reason to add value to somebody's life. Nor do you need to get anything back from them. You add value because it's who you are.
3967 Antoine François Prévost
The girl arrived; I thought her handsome; and as I doubted not that you would be mortified by my absence, I did most sincerely hope that she would be able to dissipate something of your ennui: for it is the fidelity of the heart alone that I value.
2028 Mark Warner
In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.
1788 Frans De Waal
If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.
3775 Albert Einstein
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.
1969 Jared Diamond
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.
4851 Chris Matakas
A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values.
3562 Petra Durst Benning
How others perceive us is entirely up to us. A man is what he makes of himself. He can be treated with respect and goodwill, or he can be crushed underfoot like a worm. If you want to be successful in the world of trade and commerce, then you must look successful.
4631 Bryant McGill
Our value is mirrored back to us through success only when we share the treasure we already are.
4369 Michael Bassey Johnson
Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.
4682 Theodore Roosevelt
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
3595 Friedrich Nietzsche
We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
4778 John Hawkins
Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of this, liberals don't pay much attention to why traditions developed or wonder about possible ramifications of their social engineering.
3705 S.E. Cupp
We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.
2403 Lailah Gifty Akita
May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family.
4689 Charles J. Chaput
Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty-these are Christian values.
2647 Steven Magee
I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late
2808 Ziad K. Abdelnour
A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart.
3029 Parker J. Palmer
Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.
4194 Jack McDevitt
Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.
2763 Jill Lepore
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
2352 Al Gore
you can't be value free when it comes to marriage
1076 Chana Levitan
No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.
3176 Brandon Sanderson
Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.
2573 Bryant McGill
Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go.
4519 Milan Hollister
Without basic human values guiding us, we become morally bankrupt. Without love as our purpose, we become empty. Without understanding of both of these, we become lost.
2996 Angelica Hopes
Happy endings happen every day we share our generosity, peace, compassion, kindness, respect, timeless love and joy with our love ones, friends and others.
1788 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
3645 Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
3791 Bob Ong
Tatlo ang magulang ng henerasyon natin. Ang tatay, ang nanay, at ang mga patalastas o media. Kaya kung mahina yung dalawang nauna, naagawan sila ng ikatlo sa pagpapalaki sa bata.
4381 Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.
2668 JoAnne Myers
I believe in family values and following your dreams.
2266 Fela Durotoye
Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home
1992 Belsebuub
A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.
4338 Tanya Kimberly Orme
I don't want to become obsessed with work or money or change any of the values I have now. I don't have reason to believe that I ever should change, as much as I have this feeling of urgency to pursue my dreams...
2123 Anne Perry
Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life.
1105 Dick Van Dyke
I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
1470 Fabian Gustafsson
The one who lives solely with the many, solely with the best, lives only as briefly as that which he owns, passes his tests.
The one living by his actions, and by his deeds, will live his full life owning the average, happily having them, filling his needs.
1520 Thomas Paine
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
2746 Michael J. Sandel
[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.
2484 Lila Abu-Lughod
What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?
1305 A.J. Darkholme
The values most important to us are always the most easily exploitable.
2718 Michael Bassey Johnson
A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.
2093 Samuel Johnson
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
4885 Alexander McCall Smith
...they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe - you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them.
4382 E.webb
moneys value is only as big as the value you place on money
4508 Alain De Botton
Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.
4887 Rollo May
Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)
4138 Ann Bailey
When people tell you that you can’t live your way, don’t believe them.
3063 Michelle Carithers
Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?"
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3943 Cindy Ann Peterson
Civility awareness and a common foundation of considerate conduct are crutial to our future,
3543 Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
2680 William Shakespeare
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
1443 Edith Wharton
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
3498 Robert Kegan
Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.
3568 Unarine Ramaru
I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.
1215 Jonathan Haidt
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
4649 Michelle Malkin
In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor.
2543 Nick Harkaway
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
3832 Max Frisch
A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
4557 Bryant McGill
Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.
2881 Joachim Gauck
Ich wünsche mir, dass sich unsere Gesellschaft tolerant, wertbewusst und vor allen Dingen in Liebe zur Freiheit entwickelt und nicht vergisst, dass die Freiheit der Erwachsenen Verantwortung heißt.
2906 Joachim Gauck
Es ist [...] meine tiefe Überzeugung, dass die Freiheit das Allerwichtigste im Zusammenleben ist und erst Freiheit unserer Gesellschaft Kultur, Substanz und Inhalt verleiht.
4711 David Bedrick
Families can also be divided into subgroups with different values, perspectives, and and communication styles, even if a subgroup consists of only one individual.
3365 Vishwas Mudagal
What is Religion according to you?
“Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.
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