1. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. ~Henry Ford
2. A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. ~Benjamin Disraeli
3. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ~Isaac Asimov
5. A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ~Socrates
6. All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ~Marshall McLuhan
7. As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents. ~Sidney Poitier
8. Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ~Allan Bloom
9. Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. ~Max Nordau
10. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. ~Aesop
11. 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
12. Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. ~Sandra Day O'Connor
13. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ~C. S. Lewis
14. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ~C. S. Lewis
15. Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do. ~Carlyle
16. Experience is not what happens to you; it what you DO with what happens to you. ~Aldous Huxley
17. First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
18. Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. ~Rebecca West
19. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ~Ayn Rand
20. He only profits from praise who values criticism. ~Heinrich Heine
21. I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles. ~Steve Pavlina
22. I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. ~Benjamin Franklin
23. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ~Wolfgang Von Goethe
24. I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values. ~Sidney Poitier
25. I have learned this at least by my experiments: that if you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavour to live the life you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ~Henry David Thoreau
26. I live for those who love me, for those who know me true;
For the heaven that smiles above me, and awaits my spirit too;
For the cause that lacks assistance, for the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance, and the good that I can do. ~George Linnaeus Banks
27. 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
28. If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
29. If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all. ~Barack Obama
30. If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve. ~Anthony Robbins
31. It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. Harriet Beecher Stowe ~ -
32. It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ~Roy Disney
33. 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
34. Just because I was born doesn't give me the right to scorn and devalue you or let you try to diminish me. Instead, my rights are to make sure that I control myself and recognize your right to control yourself. ~Nellie Curtiss
35. Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet. ~Unknown
36. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do ~Rumi
37. Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. ~Ayn Rand
38. Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use. ~Sai Baba
39. Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. ~Charles Lindbergh
40. Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. ~Francois duc la Rochefoucauld
41. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau
42. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. ~Oscar Wilde
43. On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. ~Ignazio Silone
44. One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance. ~Gloria Vanderbilt
45. Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess. ~John W. Gardner
46. People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for. ~Unknown
47. Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them. ~Stephen Covey
48. Safety doesn’t lie in the absence of danger or in our capacity to control the world at large, but rather in our ability to shape whatever happens to us. ~Dawna Markova
49. Show up in all ways. Pay attention to what has heart and meaning. Tell the truth without judgement or blame. Do not be attached to outcomes, but be open to outcomes. ~Angeles Arrien, The Four-Fold Way
50. Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. ~Ralph Ellison
51. The essence of an organization lies in what it believes, what it stands for, and what it values. An organization's works, rather than its words, are the telling assessment of its beliefs. ~John Carver
52. 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
53. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Edmund Burke
54. The stuff that’s most important to me in life can’t be bought — it can only be earned. ~Steve Pavlina
55. The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr.
56. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ~Ann Landers
57. The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self. ~ Albert Einstein
58. The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. ~Hugh Mackay
59. The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. ~Jacob Bronowski
60. The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life. ~John Macy
61. The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
62. The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. ~Naguib Mahfouz
63. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ~Oswald Spengler
64. To affect the quality of the day —that is the highest of the arts. ~Henry David Thoreau
65. To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
66. True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. ~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
67. Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue - these are the means of success, not caste or family. Mahabharata ~Hindu
68. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein
69. Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for. ~Senator John Kerry
70. Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others. ~Jonathan Sacks
71. We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principal goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained. ~Barack Obama
72. We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens. ~Sandra Day O'Connor
73. What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are. ~ Edgar Z. Friedenberg
74. You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. ~Peter Abrahams
75. You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective. ~Denis Waitley
76. You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. ~Marcus T. Cicero
77. Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live. ~Steve Pavlina