Values Quotes

I believe in family values and following your dreams.

~ Joanne Myers

To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.

~ Richard Rohr

You can't stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.

~ Nkem Paul

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art

~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.

~ Alan W. Kennedy

If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon laying down rails for surface cars in some place where surface cars turn out not to be wanted, he has diverted a mass of labor into channels where it gives pleasure to no one. Nevertheless, when he becomes poor through failure of his investment he will be regarded as a victim of undeserved misfortune, whereas the gay spendthrift, who has spent his money philanthropically, will be despised as a fool and a frivolous person.

~ Bertrand Russell

This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior, the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.

~ William Powers

It is hard to dislike someone you know if that person is someone you value.

~ Sharon Leslie Morgan

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

~ Dennis Prager

All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn't mind that they were men, or even white men. What I did mind was that being white seemed to play so important a part in the assigning of values.

~ Walter Dean Myers

O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and which your honourable name had distinguished more than all its conquests? 'Gods,' you would have said, 'what has happened to those thatched roofs and those rustic dwelling places where, back then, moderation and virtue lived? What fatal splendour has succeeded Roman simplicity? What is this strange language? What are these effeminate customs? What do these statues signify, these paintings, these buildings? You mad people, what have you done? You, masters of nations, have you turned yourself into the slaves of the frivolous men you conquered? Are you now governed by rhetoricians? Was it to enrich architects, painters, sculptors, and comic actors that you soaked Greece and Asia with your blood? Are the spoils of Carthage trophies for a flute player? Romans, hurry up and tear down these amphitheatres, break up these marbles, burn these paintings, chase out these slaves who are subjugating you, whose fatal arts are corrupting you. Let other hands distinguish themselves with vain talents. The only talent worthy of Rome is that of conquering the world and making virtue reign there. When Cineas took our Senate for an assembly of kings, he was not dazzled by vain pomp or by affected elegance. He did not hear there this frivolous eloquence, the study and charm of futile men. What then did Cineas see that was so majestic? O citizens! He saw a spectacle which your riches or your arts could never produce, the most beautiful sight which has ever appeared under heaven, an assembly of two hundred virtuous men, worthy of commanding in Rome and governing the earth.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In a rule-based society, we often choose efficiency over value, but, while rules-based governance systems may often serve well the values of fairness and representation, their seeming efficiency hides a deep and important flaw: We often rely on rules when they are not, in fact, the most efficient or effective solution to getting the result that we desire.

~ Dov Seidman

Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams.

~ David Arenson

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hoarding of material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher and better — in other wordsa complete inversion of true values and ideals, the raising of the victory flag of ignorance and the banner of degeneracy. In such a time, social decadence is so widespread that it appears as a natural component of all political institutions. The crises that dominate the daily lives of our societies are part of a secret occult war to remove the support of spiritual and traditional values in order to turn man into a passive instrument of dark powers.The common ground of both Capitalism and Socialism is a materialistic view of life and being. Materialism in its war with the Spirit has taken on many forms; some have promoted its goals with great subtlety, whilst others have done so with an alarming lack of subtlety, but all have added, in greater or lesser measure, to the growing misery of Mankind. The forms which have done the most damage in our time may be enumerated as: Freemasonry, Liberalism, Nihilism, Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism, Imperialism, Anarchism, Modernism and the New Age.

~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.

~ Henry Cloud

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death, the modern man's worst fear is just death

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Is it really worth dying for the person you lo

~ Jodi Picoult

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

~ Jasper Fforde

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.

~ Charles J. Chaput

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.

~ Alain De Botton

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

~ Rollo May

The core of PR ((public relations) is strongest where our identity and value relationships are built through sharing and caring interactions, not sold through marketing pitches asking directly for transactions. ~ @Tracey007Bond

~ Tracey Bond

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

~ Jerry Greenfield

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

~ Marco Rubio

In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.

~ Simon Mainwaring

Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values, but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

~ Julian Baggini

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

~ Thomas Cochrane

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

~ Cory Booker

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.

~ Jack Ma

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

~ Melanie Brown

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

~ William S. Burroughs

I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.

~ Sidney Poitier

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

~ Robert Morgan

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

~ Sidney Hook

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

~ Paul Wellstone

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

~ William J. Clinton

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

~ Christopher Lasch

We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.

~ Donald Tusk