Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3429 authors
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Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children…
— Margaret Mead
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I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value…
— James Fallows
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We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.
— William Inge
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But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance;…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether…
— Kerry James Marshall
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A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.
— Barack Obama
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I hate the title of being called 'the richest woman in India,' but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created…
— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community, or…
— Hillary Clinton
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For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine…
— Carol S. Dweck
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What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.
— Timothy Keller
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I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you…
— James Salter
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Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires -…
— Arthur Peacocke
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God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth…
— Derek Prince
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If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Posterity gives every man his true value.
— Tacitus
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If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value,…
— Annie Dillard
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
— William Ralph Inge
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The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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