Values Quotes
6303 Values quotes by 3429 unique authors
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
— Christopher Hitchens
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The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries…
— Aldous Huxley
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My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear,…
— Bell Hooks
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I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have…
— Alice Munro
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A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and…
— Sigmund Freud
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When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
— Nicholas Sparks
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....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard…
— Jane Goodall
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Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.
— Sarah Dessen
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So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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What if he wakes up before you get home and steals you blind? (Wayne) Steals what? My clothes won’t fit him and I have nothing…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.
— Kató Lomb
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In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the…
— David Foster Wallace
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There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use…
— Swami Satchidananda
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The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.
— Walt Whitman
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I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives…
— Oprah Winfrey
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The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest…
— David O. McKay
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Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what…
— Daniel Defoe
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I think one of the most important differences between us is that you are excellent at living in a way that is commensurate with your…
— John Green
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...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter…
— Fidel Castro
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There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed…
— Ann Aguirre
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For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is…
— Isabelle Eberhardt
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Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within…
— Daniel Quinn
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