Values Quotes - Page 2

• Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Vision, Principles

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

  Stephen Covey

  Stress, Looks, Way

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• The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Numbers, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2781, Delphi Classics

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• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Witty, Memorial Day

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Cost

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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• You must look within for value,
  but must look beyond for perspective.

  Denis Waitley

  Perspective, Looks

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• The best thing in life aren't things.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Best Things, Things In Life

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• To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Motivational, Change, Women

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 03, 2013

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• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.235

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• Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Running, Health

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 20, 2015

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• We have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent revolution under the rule of law, a revolution of values, a revolution of ideas. We've come a long way, but we still have a distance to go before all of our citizens embrace the idea of a truly interracial democracy, what I like to call the Beloved Community, a nation at peace with itself.

  John Lewis

  Kings, Distance, Beloved Community

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• Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Virtue, Loses

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• It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Yoga, Health

  "The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity". Book by Mark Vonnegut, 1975.

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  A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Happiness, Depression

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• Each being is sacred - meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

  Starhawk

  Holiness, Hierarchy, Sacred

  "The Fifth Sacred Thing". Book by Starhawk, 1993.

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• Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.

  Sara Genn

  Fun, Choices, Contrast

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• We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Years, Needs

  'Countdown with Keith Olbermann', www.nbcnews.com. June 19, 2008.

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• The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

  Samuel Johnson

  Good Life, Father, Thinking

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• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Time

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.213, Penguin

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• Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

  Sidney Poitier

  Thinking, Talking, Trying

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• We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, War, Home

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