Values Quotes

A hero is someone who is selfless.

~ Mark Andrew Poe

Changing prejudice often inverts the value of words while preserving most of their sense; virtues are turned into vices, artistic qualities become defects.

~ John Shearman

Do you want me? I am yours.

~ Mark Andrew Poe

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In her focus on personal comfort, she had forgotten about eternal values.

~ Amanda Tero

In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.

~ Jim Highsmith

Agile Project Management -like its lean development counterparts- streamlines the development process, concentrating on value-adding activities and eliminating overhead and compliance activities.

~ Jim Highsmith

If your goal is to deliver a product that meets a known and unchanging specification, then try a repeatable process. However, if your goal is to deliver a valuable product to a customer within some targeted boundaries, when change and deadlines are significant factors, then reliable Agile processes work better.

~ Jim Highsmith

Strong brands are built on unshakable values and authenticity.

~ Simone Smith

The uniform is that which we do not choose, that which is assigned to us; it is the certitude of the universal against the precariousness of the individual. When the values that were once so solid come under challenge and withdraw, heads bowed, he who cannot live without them (without fidelity, family, country, discipline, without love) buttons himself up in the universality of his uniform as if that uniform were the last shred of transcendence that could protect him against the cold of a future in which there will be nothing left to respect.

~ Milan Kundera

As we go through life, we essentially grow a personality. Our personality branches out in many directions to assist us organize our thoughts, feelings, values, ideas, and coping mechanisms. Our exhibited behavior – the way we organize and deal with life – becomes an external representation of our central self.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If EXCELLENCE is one of your values, not only you self-critic and evaluate your performance consistently, you BEG others for honest feedback...

~ Assegid Habtewold

When you maintain long-term relationships with the people and things you value most, this dedication reveals worth, reliability, trustworthiness, beauty, and integrity. Be someone who adds value and cares for cherished loved ones and belongings in this moment or for life.

~ Laura Staley

Never judge a book by its price.

~ Claire Hamelin Manning

Values reflect what is important to the way you live and work.

~ Glenn C. Stewart

Values are the deeply held beliefs that drive and direct your behavior.

~ Glenn C. Stewart

Values offer focus amidst the chaos.

~ Glenn C. Stewart

It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

~ Gail Carriger

Empowered Women 101: A confident woman takes him for exactly who he is, not who she wants him to be. He is who he is, take it or leave it before you get married. This is the ground level of your partner. Together you can grow from here. However, if you are still teaching basic kindergarten values such as kindness, compassion, respect or honesty then you shouldn't complain if your ground level has a basement.

~ Shannon L. Alder

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

~ Mark Twain

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

~ Mark Twain

It is a sad thing to me that in this world a persons value is measured by the size of their wallet.

~ Heather Wolf

I am a hypocrite when it comes to being a conformist. My values and beliefs are part of my foundation of who I am. My frame work as you would say. But my life experiences are the bricks of the walls as I build my life and for that I am not a conformist I am a rebel.

~ Bonnie Zackson Koury

That which costs little is less valued.

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

When an economist attempts to prove that it is irrational to vote in national elections (because the effort expended outweighs the likely benefit to the individual voter), they use the term because they do not wish to say irrational for actors for whom civic participation, political ideals, of the common good are not values in themselves, but who view public affairs only in terms of personal advantage.

~ David Graeber

The key is selecting the right people to join the team, those with the right skills and values, those who embrace our purpose.

~ Ken Jennings

To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love—because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

~ Ayn Rand

Love is a rare and precious thing. Squander it at your peril.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Money isn’t the only measure of making a house a home.

~ M. Judeth Nelson

Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.

~ Ayn Rand

How do you know whether you're serious about your values? You fight for them when they're violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit.

~ Assegid Habtewold

The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one’s own hierarchy of values, then acting accordingly.

~ Ayn Rand

When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life.

~ Ayn Rand

It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.

~ Paul Murray

People in every nation behave and respond according to the values and virtues upon which they were raised. We all are a product of our environment.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every morning when I wake up, I wish the day will be productive. It should be filled with good things like writing something worth the thought, helping people, or even carrying out simple deeds like flashing a friendly smile to everyone. Well, why bother doing all these? It's because I keep telling myself to never underestimate the power of virtue, no matter how small it seems, it can make a difference.

~ Aishah Madadiy

Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I leave his house feeling blissed. It is not the same feeling like when you get a present from someone, you buy things you desire, or you receive good news. It is something intrinsic that stems from solicitude, which triggers your conscience to carry out something good - in my case, helping Mr Mario. That is how righteousness works. It does not only give pleasure to the receiver (of good action), but to the giver as well.

~ Aishah Madadiy

When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving.

~ Nicholas Carr

When people undermine your values, they've strong reasons. For example, they mistaken your passion for excellence as perfectionism...

~ Assegid Habtewold