Value(s)
- All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Anything of real value requires effort, understanding, and dedication.--Jay Parini
- Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.--Allan Bloom ("Values" The Closing of the American Mind)
- Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create)
- Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.--John C. Maxwell
- The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.--Confucius
- A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.--Martin Luther King, Jr. ("Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam")
- Happiness and high performance come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
- I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.--Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)
- If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.--William Greider (One world, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism)
- It's not good for all of our wishes to be fulfilled. Through sickness, we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.--Greek proverb
- It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.--Roy Disney
- Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.--Jean de La Fontaine
- The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.--Jim Rohn
- Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.--Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the things itself, by people.--John Barth (The Floating Opera)
- Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.--Oscar Wilde (Picture of Dorian Gray)
- One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are full.--Ann Morrow Lindburgh
- The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.--Leo Buscaglia
- Our country--the last remaining superpower on earth--needs to learn to measure its strength not by the number of people it can kill but by the number of people it can feed, clothe, house, and care for.--Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield (Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip: Lead With Your Values and Make Money, Too)
- [A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.--David Hume
- Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values--honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.--Michael DeBakey, M.D. (in Success Secrets of Super Achievers by Stovall)
- Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.--Albert Einstein
- Talents, like intelligence, are value neutral. If you want to change your life so that others may benefit from your strengths, change your values. Don't waste time trying to change your talents.-Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton (Now, Discover Your Talents)
- There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.--Beverly Sills
- There can be no high civility without a deep morality.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.--Charles Dudley Warner ("Sixteenth Week" My Summer in a Garden)
- There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.--Henry David Thoreau
- A thing is worth precisely what it can do for you; not what you choose to pay for it.--John Ruskin (The Queen of the Air)
- There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.--Tori Amos
- Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.--Amit Kalantri
- To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.--Mark Twain
- To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.--Maxine Hong Kingston
- Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. … We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.--Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully)
- Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.--Ann Landers
- Tough times expose shared values.--John Haas
- Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.--M. Scott Peck
- Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.--Dr. Laura Schlesinger
- Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.--T. Sachs
- We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.--John F. Kennedy
- We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.--David Ansen
- We have learned that the things we amassed to prove to ourselves how valuable, how important, how successful we were, didn't prove it at all. In fact, they have very little to do with it. It's what's inside of us, not what's outside of us that counts.--Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully)
- We need more people who are willing … to own their own stories, live their values and keep showing up.--Brene Brown (Rising Strong: the Reckoning, the Rumble, the Revolution)
- What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.--Edgar Z. Friedenberg ("The Impact of the School," The Vanishing Adolescent)
- What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.--Thomas Paine (The American Crisis)
- When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism, are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.--Martin Luther King, Jr, ("A Time to Break Silence," address given on April 4th in 1967 at the Riverside Church in New York City)
- When you learn to embrace your self with a sense of appreciation and affection, you begin to glimpse the goodness and light that is in you and gradually you will realize that you are worthy of respect from yourself. When you recognize your limits, but still embrace your life with affection and graciousness, the sense of inner dignity begins to grow. You become freer and less dependent on the affirmation of outer voices and less troubled by the negativity of others. --John O'Donohue (Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong)
- Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.--Vaclav Havel ("Politics, morality, and Civility" Summer Meditations)
- Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand--a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods--or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.--Willa Cather (On the Art of Fiction)
- You are what your deep driving desire is,
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.--Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5
- Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
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