Values Quotes - Page 26

• Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

  Robert G. Allen

  Priceless, Nurture, Wells

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• Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things.

  Richard Leider

  Ends, Our Lives

  Richard Leider, David A. Shapiro (2004). “Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose”, p.131, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

  John Templeton

  Share, Share Price

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• Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Effectiveness, Psychological, Has Beens

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.35, A&C Black

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• Success is all about being able to extend love to people. The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Responsibility, Successful, People

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• The value of a good idea is in using it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Ideas, Good Ideas

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• The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold

  Martin Truex Jr.

  Years, Gold, Currency

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• The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mistake, Mean, Facts

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• The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

  Peter Robinson

  Age, Extravagance, Levels

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• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Spontaneous

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 115 (May 1781)

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• We are all born into families and cultures we didn't choose, given names we didn't pick, instructed in behaviour and values we might not have freely chosen, and too often we end up expected to live lives designed by others.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Live Life, Names, Culture

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• Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Would Be, Ifs

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• It is also in despair of being able to understand or make any productive contribution to the highly organised chaos of our politico-economic system that large numbers of people simply abandon political and social committments. They just let society be taken over by a pattern of organisation which is as self-proliferative as a weed, and whose ends and values are neither human nor instinctive but mechanical.

  Alan Watts

  Weed, Taken, Numbers

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• For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

  Ashley Montagu

  Love Is, Survival, Behavior

  Ashley Montagu (1970). “The Direction of Human Development”, New York : Hawthorn Books

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• The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ethos, Law, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.100, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.

  Charley Reese

  Gun, Criminals, Crowds

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• Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Years, Keys

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• It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

  John Galsworthy

  Dog, Eye, Thinking

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• Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

  George Carlin

  Emotional, Hypocrisy, Comfort

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Rays, Fleeting

  Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1971). “Mark Twain's notebook”, Scholarly Pr

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• In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, Taken, Ignorance

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• I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

  Byron Dorgan

  Strong, Eight, Government

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• Just as the value of a house lies in its location, The value of a mind lies in its depth, The value of giving lies in the presence of a generous spirit, The value of words lies in their reliability.

  Laozi

  Lying, Generous Spirit, Giving

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• Value equals benefits received for burdens endured.

  Leonard L. Berry

  Benefits, Burden

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• Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  Design, Principles, Management

  "Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution" by Michael Hammer, James A. Champy, HarperCollins, (p. 11), 1993.

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