Values Quotes

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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. — Ayn Rand
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what theyâ€™re really doing is reading to find reason for… — Terry Goodkind
Life has no meaning a prioriâ€¦ It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you… — Jean-Paul Sartre
This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. .… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by… — C.S. Lewis
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. — Ayn Rand
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.… — Richard P. Feynman
The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and lightâ€¦.Itâ€™s a mistake to… — Anne Michaels
If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives. — Rachel Naomi Remen
How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put… — John Steinbeck
If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be… — Cormac McCarthy
All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what… — Barack Obama
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because… — Mahatma Gandhi
How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a… — Thomas Paine
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom… — Pope John Paul II
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next… — Graham Greene
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking… — C.S. Lewis
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. — A A Milne

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