Values Quotes

6303 Values quotes by 3429 unique authors

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by… — Milan Kundera
One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and… — Hillary Clinton
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]. — Simone de Beauvoir
Gold is the corpse of value... — Neal Stephenson
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to… — Thomas Merton
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by… — W. Somerset Maugham
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values… — Jeannette Walls
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by… — Ayn Rand
If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable… — Pat Conroy
Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one… — Margaret Thatcher
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do — Elvis Presley
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute. — Flannery O'Connor
If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that… — Alfred de Musset
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code… — Ayn Rand
You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can. — Richelle Mead
And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook… — Osip Mandelstam
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal.… — Tom Robbins
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of… — Karl Marx
You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things… — Jeanette Winterson
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that… — Oscar Wilde
I still think it's important for people to have a sharp, ongoing critique of marriage in patriarchal society — because once you marry within a… — Bell Hooks
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that… — Theodore Roosevelt
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. — Albert Einstein

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