Values Quotes

“To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born.”
― - Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson.

“Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.”
― Parker J. Palmer

“You ironically have to have a very strong ego structure to let go of your ego. You need to struggle with the rules more than a bit before you throw them out. You only internalize values by butting up against external values for a while.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully, treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth.  For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.”
― Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

“You can't stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.”
― Nkem Mpamah, The ART of Achievement and Fulfillment: Fundamental Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Turn Dreams into Reality!

“Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art”
― Miguel de Cervantes

“When someone says "I Love You," it is imperative that you know if you are loved for "WHAT you are" or "WHO you are."
When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank accounts and all that has been acquired over the years are taken away, all that is left is "Who you are" - Your Personality (character, values, perceptions.)

"We are never truly loved, until we are loved for WHO and not WHAT we are”
― Olaotan Fawehinmi

“The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.”
― Max Frisch, Montauk

“If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.”
― Alan W. Kennedy, The Alpha Strategies, Understanding Strategy, Risk, and Values in Any Organization

“I believe strongly that my books are entertainment. I hope you might learn a thing or two while reading them, but first and foremost, my job is to entertain you. If I’m waving a flag in Hot Target, it’s the same flag I’ve always waved in all my books—the American flag. And that’s a flag that’s supposed to stand for acceptance and understanding. For freedom for all—and not just freedom for all Americans, but freedom for all of the diverse and wonderful people living on this planet; freedom to live their lives according to their definitions of freedom. It’s a flag that’s supposed to stand for real American values like honor and honesty and peace and love and hope.”
― Suzanne Brockmann, Headed for Trouble

“In our culture it is a woman's body which is considered important while it is a man's mind or his activities which are valued. A woman is sexy. A man is successful.”
― Alleen Pace Nilsen

“Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.”
― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World

“By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car to be respected, or buy the latest thing to come along simply to satisfy the desire that has been formed and implanted in us. It is important to appreciate that these disciplinary mechanisms transmit values and truth claims, but not via propositions or cognitive means; rather, the values are transmitted more covertly...This covertness of the operation is also what makes it so powerful: the truths are inscribed in us through the powerful instruments of imagination and ritual.”
― James K.A. Smith, Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.”
― Dennis Prager, Think a Second Time

“This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.”
― William Powers, Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization

“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and which your honourable name had distinguished more than all its conquests? 'Gods,' you would have said, 'what has happened to those thatched roofs and those rustic dwelling places where, back then, moderation and virtue lived? What fatal splendour has succeeded Roman simplicity? What is this strange language? What are these effeminate customs? What do these statues signify, these paintings, these buildings? You mad people, what have you done? You, masters of nations, have you turned yourself into the slaves of the frivolous men you conquered? Are you now governed by rhetoricians? Was it to enrich architects, painters, sculptors, and comic actors that you soaked Greece and Asia with your blood? Are the spoils of Carthage trophies for a flute player? Romans, hurry up and tear down these amphitheatres, break up these marbles, burn these paintings, chase out these slaves who are subjugating you, whose fatal arts are corrupting you. Let other hands distinguish themselves with vain talents. The only talent worthy of Rome is that of conquering the world and making virtue reign there. When Cineas took our Senate for an assembly of kings, he was not dazzled by vain pomp or by affected elegance. He did not hear there this frivolous eloquence, the study and charm of futile men. What then did Cineas see that was so majestic? O citizens! He saw a spectacle which your riches or your arts could never produce, the most beautiful sight which has ever appeared under heaven, an assembly of two hundred virtuous men, worthy of commanding in Rome and governing the earth.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics

“It is hard to dislike someone you know if that person is someone you value.”
― Sharon Leslie Morgan, Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade

“All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn't mind that they were men, or even white men. What I did mind was that being white seemed to play so important a part in the assigning of values.”
― Walter Dean Myers, Bad Boy: A Memoir

“moneys value is only as big as the value you place on money”
― e.webb

“Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment.”
― Tahir Shah, Beyond the Devil's Teeth : Journeys in Gondwanaland

“Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home”
― Fela Durotoye

“We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values”
― Fela Durotoye

“In a rule-based society, we often choose efficiency over value, but, while rules-based governance systems may often serve well the values of fairness and representation, their seeming efficiency hides a deep and important flaw: We often rely on rules when they are not, in fact, the most efficient or effective solution to getting the result that we desire.”
― Dov Seidman, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business

“Your life is your statement to the world representing your values, your beliefs, your dreams.”
― David Arenson

“Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders”
― Fela Durotoye