Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3553 authors
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There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.
— Ravi Zacharias
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Maybe the first time that you know you really care about something is when you think about it not being there,and when you know-you really…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then…
— William Shakespeare
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You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously.…
— Hermann Hesse
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Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing
— James Clavell
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We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to…
— Michael Chabon
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Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.
— Dalai Lama
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The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and…
— Wendell Berry
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Values aren't buses... They're not supposed to get you anywhere. They're supposed to define who you are.
— Jennifer Crusie
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The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one…
— Tom Stoppard
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Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,…
— Henry James
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(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire…
— Richard Matheson
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The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own…
— Thomas Merton
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Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part…
— Joseph Campbell
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As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
— Brent Weeks
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We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
— Philip Yancey
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