Values Quotes

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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it.… — H. L. Mencken
The secret to success is... is no secret. It's called work your Ass off and find a way to add more value to peoples lives… — Tony Robbins
There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself. — Tony Hsieh
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion. — George MacDonald
Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from… — Jean-Michel Cousteau
No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in… — Nhat Hanh
The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love. — Wes Fesler
The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism.… — Dalai Lama
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you… — Samuel Johnson
You cannot judge the value of a life by its length. — Esther Hicks
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.… — Aesop
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim… — W. Somerset Maugham
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool. — Miguel de Cervantes
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is… — Charles Caleb Colton
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away. — Joseph Wood Krutch
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? — David Sarnoff
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds. — William Hazlitt

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