Values Quotes
6303 quotes by 3553 authors
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I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
— Albert Einstein
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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most…
— Steven Erikson
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That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he…
— Richelle Mead
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Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
— Ayn Rand
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Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried…
— Francine Rivers
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This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and…
— Kelly Corrigan
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I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter…
— Pentti Linkola
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Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the…
— Susan Sontag
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private…
— Terry Pratchett
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Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. “I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn’t spend ’em too cheap.†Ranulf nodded.…
— Claudia Gray
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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.…
— Oscar Wilde
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Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive…
— Howard Zinn
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Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day."…
— Nora Roberts
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