Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3553 authors
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Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is…
— Saul Alinsky
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Life only has the value a person gives it. If I killed you here and now, yours would be worthless and no one would mourn…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal…
— Holly Black
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It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an…
— Jonathan Franzen
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know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
— Nora Roberts
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employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a…
— John Kennedy Toole
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...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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You will lose what you value most... It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life. What you value…
— Richelle Mead
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The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established…
— Ivan Illich
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Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.
— Stephen Covey
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Caroline, do you value your neck?" "Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?" "Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.
— Julia Quinn
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Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want…
— Elizabeth Moon
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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away…
— Milan Kundera
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This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I think we have different value systems." —Arthur "Well mine's better." —Ford
— Douglas Adams
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The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the…
— Tom Brokaw
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Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the…
— Albert Einstein
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