Values Quotes

6303 Values quotes by 3429 unique authors

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by… — C.S. Lewis
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. — Ayn Rand
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.… — Richard P. Feynman
The spirit in the body is like wine in a glass; when it spills, it seeps into air and earth and light….It’s a mistake to… — Anne Michaels
If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives. — Rachel Naomi Remen
How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put… — John Steinbeck
If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be… — Cormac McCarthy
All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what… — Barack Obama
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because… — Mahatma Gandhi
How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a… — Thomas Paine
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of freedom… — Pope John Paul II
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next… — Graham Greene
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking… — C.S. Lewis
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. — A A Milne
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. — Nikolai Berdyaev
Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve… — Thomas Merton
Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words… — Sharon Creech
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You… — Dalai Lama
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books… — Laurie Anderson
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship,… — Ludwig von Mises
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was… — Neil Gaiman
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be… — Robert Henri
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller

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