Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3553 authors
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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as…
— Aldo Leopold
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Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength…
— Ronald Reagan
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Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who…
— Bette Greene
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There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your…
— Robert Fulghum
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The great news is that God knows everything about you, both good and bad, and He still loves you and values you unconditionally. God does…
— Joel Osteen
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Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!
— Rick Warren
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A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his…
— Ayn Rand
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There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his…
— Ayn Rand
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We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the…
— John Steinbeck
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Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this…
— H. L. Mencken
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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and…
— John Dewey
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Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense…
— Richard Wright
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Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the…
— Gustavo Gutiérrez
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If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.
— Jeanette Winterson
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If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.
— Jon Stewart
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Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does…
— Ayn Rand
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
— Stephen Covey
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But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out…
— Alfred Bester
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