Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3553 authors
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You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.
— Richelle Mead
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And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook…
— Osip Mandelstam
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If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal.…
— Tom Robbins
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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of…
— Karl Marx
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You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
— Oscar Wilde
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I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a…
— Bell Hooks
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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
— Albert Einstein
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What it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep them healthy, teach them how to care for…
— Jeanette Winterson
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The value of the work we do is the value we give to it.
— Christopher Moore
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as…
— Oscar Wilde
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Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.
— Jacques Derrida
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The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow…
— Rolf Potts
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Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines…
— Ayn Rand
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Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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