Values Quotes

A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values.

~ Chris Matakas

Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it's not a question of giving up all values, it's simply a question of which values.

~ Robert C. Solomon

Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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.

~ Antoine François Prévost D'exiles

Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.

~ Kate Millett

Our value is mirrored back to us through success only when we share the treasure we already are.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

~ Said Elias Dawlabani

Fundamental values (such as equality and human rights) should not be held hostage to some factual conjecture about blank slates that might be refuted tomorrow.

~ Hafiz

Your values define who you truly are. Your true identity is the sum total of your values.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Love is the compass which keeps every other value from becoming lost.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You already have and are, your value is intrinsic.

~ Bryant Mcgill

True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places and times.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

...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.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

~ Frans De Waal

It is the leader’s job to model and enforce the values and behaviors that make up the company culture. “Model” the behaviors is key. “Do as I say” only breeds contempt from others.

~ Beth Ramsay

No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.

~ Chana Levitan

Living on purpose and serving a higher purpose breathes life into you every day and gives you the desire to reach your goals. You need to live each day congruently by living within your beliefs and values. Unleashing your inspired life starts with living your life’s purpose.

~ Thomas Narofsky

If you don't like how others define & label you, then work on your values. Embrace and practice values that you would like to be associated.

~ Assegid Habtewold

People define you based on what you value...

~ Assegid Habtewold

You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

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.

~ S.e. Cupp

To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.

~ G.k. Chesterton

A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Don't take it personal. Whether people like or dislike you, it most probably is because of your beliefs, principles, and values...

~ Assegid Habtewold

Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned. And that is why many companies are willing to pay them in millions.

~ Assegid Habtewold

Limbic pursuits sink slowly and steadily lower on America’s list of collective priorities. Top-ranking items remain the pursuit of wealth, physical beauty, youthful appearance, and the shifting, elusive markers of status. There are brief spasms of pleasure to be had at the end of those pursuits – the razor-thin delight of the latest purchase, the momentary glee of flaunting this promotion or that unnecessary trinket – pleasure here, but not contentment. Happiness is within range only for adroit people who give the slip to America’s values. These rebels will necessarily forgo exalted titles, glamorous friends, exotic vacations, washboard abs, designer everything – all the proud indicators of upward mobility – and in exchange, they may just get a chance at a decent life. (209)

~ Thomas Lewis

Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever greater number of desires to gratify, and to abolish as many limits and prohibitions upon desire as it can. Such a society is already implicitly atheist and so must slowly but relentlessly apply itself to the dissolution of transcendent values. It cannot allow ultimate goods to distract us from proximate goods. Our sacred writ is advertising, our piety is shopping, our highest devotion is private choice. God and the soul too often hinder the purely acquisitive longings upon which the market depends, and confront us with values that stand in stark rivalry to the only truly substantial value at the center of the social universe: the price tag.

~ David Bentley Hart

In a feast of fame and talks,Scandal flashing, raising tongue and brows.In a blast of bombing and power play,Fear and death dig more revenge.In a forgotten continent,Famine and drought devour lives.In an unfortunate eye of a rebelling weather,Crashing homes, leaving many in devastation and desperation.In a country shaking with violence,Innocent victims cry for justice and peace.In a home shaking with turmoil, Humble patient, hiding voice wants to be heard.In a tick of a second,A new breathe of life beats!To belong in this world.Constantly changing, decaying or improving?In a snap of innovation:Life goes big leap!Regression somewhere unseen,But felt in a slow, long run.

~ Angelica Hopes

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

~ John Paul Ii

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

~ Jack Mcdevitt

if you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you have different set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike. And the biggest of those values... the belief in the importance of your marriage.

~ Mitch Albom

Integrity - one word that means so much, costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world.

~ Salley Farquharson

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values?

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

~ Anita Roddick

We might think we know how we are being affected by the media—a book, a movie, a TV series. Ironically, this so-called awareness, the “third person effect,” is most common with, according to Gierzynski, “those with higher education.” He notes that “we think we know how the media affects us,” but in truth, it controls us more than we know.

~ Anthony Gierzynski

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

~ M.f. Moonzajer