Values Quotes
6303 Values quotes by 3429 unique authors
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
— Frederick Douglass
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do.…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life…
— Tristan Tzara
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I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the…
— Tori Amos
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them in their climates. Their nature…
— Maimonides
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I would have to ask the public to choose between a culture of hate or a culture of love. I am sure our poor will…
— Imelda Marcos
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More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the…
— Imelda Marcos
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Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.
— David Ogilvy
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As Carol Dweck says, “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important…
— Daniel H. Pink
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The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the…
— Steven Pinker
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If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going…
— Jonathan Haidt
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Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough…
— Johan Bruyneel
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In any new situation, whether it involves an elevator or a rocket ship, you will almost certainly be viewed in one of three ways. As…
— Chris Hadfield
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Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations.…
— Chris Hadfield
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The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
— James J. Gibson
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I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in…
— Jacques Audiard
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Every man and woman alive is gifted by God in some special way. People who have a self-image of worth are going to see value…
— William Walton
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Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which…
— Lytton Strachey
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Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally…
— Isaiah Berlin
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There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power…
— Edward Snowden
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So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so…
— Mark Zuckerberg
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Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have…
— Pope Francis
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