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When you maintain long-term relationships with the people and things you value most, this dedication reveals worth, reliability, trustworthiness, beauty, and integrity. Be someone who adds value and cares for cherished loved ones and belongings in this moment or for life.
— Laura Staley
Never judge a book by its price.
— Claire Hamelin Manning
Values reflect what is important to the way you live and work.
— Glenn C. Stewart
Values are the deeply held beliefs that drive and direct your behavior.
— Glenn C. Stewart
Values offer focus amidst the chaos.
— Glenn C. Stewart
It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.
— Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny
Empowered Women 101: A confident woman takes him for exactly who he is, not who she wants him to be. He is who he is, take it or leave it before you get married. This is the ground level of your partner. Together you can grow from here. However, if you are still teaching basic kindergarten values such as kindness, compassion, respect or honesty then you shouldn't complain if your ground level has a basement.
— Shannon L. Alder
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
— Mark Twain
It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.
— Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
It is a sad thing to me that in this world a persons value is measured by the size of their wallet.
— Heather Wolf
I am a hypocrite when it comes to being a conformist. My values and beliefs are part of my foundation of who I am. My frame work as you would say. But my life experiences are the bricks of the walls as I build my life and for that I am not a conformist I am a rebel.
— Bonnie Zackson Koury
I am a conformist within reason. I was born with strong beliefs of family tradition as well as honoring the law. I also have a strong sense of respect for the people and places around me. I was taught that our social system was put into place for the better of the people. Well as you get older you realize that is not always the case. I guess you can say I am a hypocrite when it comes to being a Conformist. Although a lot of my traditions and beliefs are part of my foundation of who I am. My frame work some would say. My life experiences are the bricks of the walls as I build my life. It is those life experiences that make me second guess the Social order that is put in to place as for the greater good of the people. That is what makes me a conformist within reason.
— I guess you can say I am a righteous nonviolent rebel. I dance to the beat of my own drum. I do not break any laws. But I live in a country that it is against the law to commit a violent crime. Although I live in a world that is rapidly changing I am trying very hard to stay true to my Values and traditions that make me who I am today. And for that I am not a conformist I am a rebel. By Bonnie Zackson Koury
That which costs little is less valued.
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because the effort expended outweighs the likely benefit to the individual voter), they use the term because they do not wish to say "irrational for actors for whom civic participation, political ideals, of the common good are not values in themselves, but who view public affairs only in terms of personal advantage.
— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
The key is selecting the right people to join the team, those with the right skills and values, those who embrace our purpose.
— Ken  Jennings, The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
A healthy company is a group of people well aligned for the same purpose propelled by the same values
— Jan Tlusťák
To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love—because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
— Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Love is a rare and precious thing. Squander it at your peril.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Money isn’t the only measure of making a house a home.
— M. Judeth Nelson, Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed?
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.
— Ayn Rand, For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
How do you know whether you're serious about your values? You fight for them when they're violated even if it costs you title, favor, friendship, and profit.
— Assegid Habtewold
The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one’s own hierarchy of values, then acting accordingly.
— Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life.
— Ayn Rand, For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
It used to be the smartest people didn't always want to be the richest people.
— Paul Murray, The Mark and the Void
People in every nation behave and respond according to the values and virtues upon which they were raised. We all are a product of our environment.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every morning when I wake up, I wish the day will be productive. It should be filled with good things like writing something worth the thought, helping people, or even carrying out simple deeds like flashing a friendly smile to everyone. Well, why bother doing all these? It's because I keep telling myself to never underestimate the power of virtue, no matter how small it seems, it can make a difference.
— Aishah Madadiy, Bits of Heaven
Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I leave his house feeling blissed. It is not the same feeling like when you get a present from someone, you buy things you desire, or you receive good news. It is something intrinsic that stems from solicitude, which triggers your conscience to carry out something good - in my case, helping Mr Mario. That is how righteousness works. It does not only give pleasure to the receiver (of good action), but to the giver as well.
— Aishah Madadiy, Bits of Heaven
When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving.
— Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
When people undermine your values, they've strong reasons. For example, they mistaken your passion for excellence as perfectionism...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
When people violate your values, they have excuses for doing so. For instance, they may misconceive your quest for responsiveness as being annoying...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Our values define who we're. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let's go beyond lip service to defend our values...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
One of the reasons that may force you walk away from great opportunities is when your values are keep violated...
— Assegid Habtewold
Aside from the straightforwardly visible curriculum, there is the hidden curriculum. This exists in the wider set of beliefs and values pupils acquire because of the way that a school is run and its teaching organized. It is about the behaviour of the teachers, the textbooks chosen, the school rules.
— Gary Thomas, Education: A Very Short Introduction
In today's world, a strong pair of hands is no longer enough for men to succeed just as a beautiful face doesn't guarantee lasting love for women. Times have changed. People now look for values everywhere. From their government to their lovers. From their phones to even the websites they visit. The 21st century game is played around value. It is slightly shifting from the package-era of the 20th century. This is one of the reason for the huge instability that has affected the modern society. From instability in relationships to quick changes in government. Value, in today's world is the difference maker between the things that will stay and the ones that won't.
— Emi Iyalla, Skills That Pay The Bills
All forms of destructions all around us. Destruction in values, destruction in people, destruction in faith, destruction in elders, destruction in the pulpit, destruction in the youth, destruction in government, destruction in society etc.
— Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation.
— Sunday Adelaja
The sinful nature of man is the same in every generation. Man naturally moves towards entropy. We are driven towards the carnal, mundane and the mediocre. We need a higher power, force and truth to deliver us from this entropic movement to self-destruction and pull us higher to greater values.
— Sunday Adelaja
The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals
— Sunday Adelaja
He had chosen to spend his days in the world of men. Life was what mattered, its slow, priceless pulse, its burning fragility; his debt lay with those importunate Flanders echoes that had never really left him. The private could aspire to be a general because both general and private, at their best, recognized the dire importance of strategy, fortitude, the value of their imperiled existence; but when the machinist became the executive he left the world of tangibles and human conjugacy and entered a shadow world of credits and consols - a world that seemed to reward nothing so much as irresponsibility and boundless greed. And when the thunder rolled down upon them - as he knew it would - how would he feel, playing with paper, striving to outwit his fellows, drinking imported Scotch evenings and listening to the brittle parade of comedians on radio ...?
— Anton Myrer
How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?
— John C. Havens
You have sacrificed justice to mercy. You have sacrificed independence to unity. You have sacrificed reason to faith. You have sacrificed wealth to need. You have sacrificed self-esteem to self-denial. You have sacrificed happiness to duty.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Embrace the right values that may enable you achieve self-leadership & self-discipline, and show commitment to these values unconditionally.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
— Tom Robbins
The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart. Qualities such as ‘nice, honest, kind, happy, relaxed, sincere, innocent’ are frowned upon as weaknesses. Yet these values are the essence of a good person. Unfortunately, if you don’t keep the balance, they can be lost like sand through your fingers.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
The most common lie you will ever tell God is your opportunity to do the right thing was taken from you.
— Shannon L. Alder
One of the greatest responsibilities of an organization’s leadership is to communicate with unwavering clarity the values on which the organization has been built.
— Vern Dosch
Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
By mindfully deciding how to act in line with my values instead of mindlessly applying my rules, I was better able to make the decisions that supported my happiness.
— Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.
— Anaïs Nin
Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life.
— Anne Perry
When we know our values, we can easily measure whether or not our actions are in accordance with them. Values are the measuring sticks with which we determine the worthiness of our actions. To be better associated with one's own values is to remove a lot of the needless activities of daily life.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.
— Gary Rohrmayer, Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.
— Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
Only by digging deep down to the core of our true self can we come to a place of inner certainty. Our underlying values and priorities are our personal navigational stars on life's journey—essential tools to chart a life course that embraces what matters most to us.
— Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More
What price are you willing to pay to see your church actively engaged in evangelism? Price? What do you mean by price? There is a cost for everything. One of the causes for evangelistic entropy is an unwillingness to count the cost of growth. If evangelism is really going to be a value that your church embraces, the church will have to embrace the changes that will take place when evangelism is activated in the church.
— Gary Rohrmayer, Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk
Religion can only be a means to a set of values cherished by its living adherents. If those values relate only to a past or a presumed afterlife, it is a sign that religion has become a goal serving the ends of a priest or a demagogue and rest of the living are merely tools to serve that end. If it is not to become a fossil, it has to be a living faith serving the cherished values of the living.
— R. N. Prasher
To know our values is to have a foundation on which to build a great life. Our environment and education will play a large part in influencing our formulation of this world view, but is ultimately ourselves that have the final say. We must decide what we value, and then live accordingly. After all, in the eyes of the world we could achieve great success, but if our actions do not coincide with what we ourselves truly deem worthy, we will find no peace.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
What is Religion according to you?“Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.
— Vishwas Mudagal
In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and afford the dead of war two minutes' silence. Afterwards, they speak golden platitudes about the struggle and the heroism of that time. Yet the words they speak are meaningless because they have surrendered the values my generation built after the horrors of the Second World War.
— Harry Leslie Smith, Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
A world without esoteric knowledge is a poorer place and we as a humanity pay the price for the loss of its principles.
— Belsebuub
All that is gold does not glitter...
— J.R.R. Tolkien
A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply adopting the values of another.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How others perceive us is entirely up to us. A man is what he makes of himself. He can be treated with respect and goodwill, or he can be crushed underfoot like a worm. If you want to be successful in the world of trade and commerce, then you must look successful.
— Petra Durst Benning
Life is a precious commodity, Charles. It’s time you achieved your full potential and learned the true value of things.” “You’re talking like a Stalinist!” I cried. “People don’t get jobs to achieve things and learn values! They do it because they have to, and then they use whatever’s left over to buy themselves nice things that make them feel less bad about having jobs!
— Paul Murray
We don’t vote for people because they are the exact embodiment of our values, but because they are likely to be the most responsive to them.
— Charles M. Blow
We treat the things that soak up energy and resources like they're valuable, and the things that generate them like they're disposable. We don't celebrate batteries. And I think that's wrong.
— Molly Ostertag
A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it's not a question of giving up all values, it's simply a question of which values.
— Robert C. Solomon, Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in the process.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Believe it or not, you and your enemies want many of the same things and share values.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Be a peacemaker who values peace and takes peace everywhere you go.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The girl arrived; I thought her handsome; and as I doubted not that you would be mortified by my absence, I did most sincerely hope that she would be able to dissipate something of your ennui: for it is the fidelity of the heart alone that I value.
— Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles, Manon Lescaut
Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.
— Kate Millett, Sexual Politics
Our value is mirrored back to us through success only when we share the treasure we already are.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.
— Said Elias Dawlabani, MEMEnomics: The Next-Generation Economic System
Fundamental values (such as equality and human rights) should not be held hostage to some factual conjecture about blank slates that might be refuted tomorrow.
Your values define who you truly are. Your true identity is the sum total of your values.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Love is the compass which keeps every other value from becoming lost.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
You already have and are
—  your value is intrinsic.
Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places and times.
— Augustine of Hippo
...they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramotswe—you must have seen that. Sometime we need to look the other way when people put money in front of our noses. We have to look at the other things we can see so the money doesn't hide them.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.
— Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
It is the leader’s job to model and enforce the values and behaviors that make up the company culture. “Model” the behaviors is key. “Do as I say” only breeds contempt from others.
— Beth Ramsay, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.
— Chana Levitan, I Only Want to Get Married Once: Dating Secrets for Getting It Right the First Time
Living on purpose and serving a higher purpose breathes life into you every day and gives you the desire to reach your goals. You need to live each day congruently by living within your beliefs and values. Unleashing your inspired life starts with living your life’s purpose.
— Thomas Narofsky, You Are Unstoppable
If you don't like how others define & label you, then work on your values. Embrace and practice values that you would like to be associated.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
People define you based on what you value...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.
— Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.
— S.E. Cupp
To train a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions.
— G.K. Chesterton, All Is Grist: A Book of Essays
A great leader has brains, vision, guts, values ... and a heart.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Don't take it personal. Whether people like or dislike you, it most probably is because of your beliefs, principles, and values...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned. And that is why many companies are willing to pay them in millions.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Limbic pursuits sink slowly and steadily lower on America’s list of collective priorities. Top-ranking items remain the pursuit of wealth, physical beauty, youthful appearance, and the shifting, elusive markers of status. There are brief spasms of pleasure to be had at the end of those pursuits – the razor-thin delight of the latest purchase, the momentary glee of flaunting this promotion or that unnecessary trinket – pleasure here, but not contentment. Happiness is within range only for adroit people who give the slip to America’s values. These rebels will necessarily forgo exalted titles, glamorous friends, exotic vacations, washboard abs, designer everything – all the proud indicators of upward mobility – and in exchange, they may just get a chance at a decent life. (209)
— Thomas Lewis, A General Theory of Love
Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever greater number of desires to gratify, and to abolish as many limits and prohibitions upon desire as it can. Such a society is already implicitly atheist and so must slowly but relentlessly apply itself to the dissolution of transcendent values. It cannot allow ultimate goods to distract us from proximate goods. Our sacred writ is advertising, our piety is shopping, our highest devotion is private choice. God and the soul too often hinder the purely acquisitive longings upon which the market depends, and confront us with values that stand in stark rivalry to the only truly substantial value at the center of the social universe: the price tag.
— David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
In a feast of fame and talks,Scandal flashing, raising tongue and brows.In a blast of bombing and power play,Fear and death dig more revenge.In a forgotten continent,Famine and drought devour lives.In an unfortunate eye of a rebelling weather,Crashing homes, leaving many in devastation and desperation.In a country shaking with violence,Innocent victims cry for justice and peace.In a home shaking with turmoil, Humble patient, hiding voice wants to be heard.In a tick of a second,A new breathe of life beats!To belong in this world.Constantly changing, decaying or improving?In a snap of innovation:Life goes big leap!Regression somewhere unseen,But felt in a slow, long run.
— Angelica Hopes, Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.
— John Paul II
Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.
— Jack McDevitt, The Engines of God
if you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you have different set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike. And the biggest of those values... the belief in the importance of your marriage.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Integrity - one word that means so much
—  costs so little yet makes a real difference in this world.
Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values?
— Abraham Joshua Heschel, Insecurity of Freedom
Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.
— Anita Roddick
We might think we know how we are being affected by the media—a book, a movie, a TV series. Ironically, this so-called awareness, the “third person effect,” is most common with, according to Gierzynski, “those with higher education.” He notes that “we think we know how the media affects us,” but in truth, it controls us more than we know.
— Anthony Gierzynski, Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation
They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I believe in family values and following your dreams.
— JoAnne Myers
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
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
You can't stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.
— Nkem Paul, 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 Saavedra
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
If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent money, such as the butcher, the baker, and the bootlegger. But if he spends it (let us say) upon laying down rails for surface cars in some place where surface cars turn out not to be wanted, he has diverted a mass of labor into channels where it gives pleasure to no one. Nevertheless, when he becomes poor through failure of his investment he will be regarded as a victim of undeserved misfortune, whereas the gay spendthrift, who has spent his money philanthropically, will be despised as a fool and a frivolous person.
— Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
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.
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
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
We need to adopt a set of common values and be ready to live out those values
— Fela Durotoye
moneys value is only as big as the value you place on money
— e.webb
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
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 (1st Discourse) and Polemics
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
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
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
People focus on role models
—  it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hoarding of material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher and better — in other wordsa complete inversion of true values and ideals, the raising of the victory flag of ignorance and the banner of degeneracy. In such a time, social decadence is so widespread that it appears as a natural component of all political institutions. The crises that dominate the daily lives of our societies are part of a secret occult war to remove the support of spiritual and traditional values in order to turn man into a passive instrument of dark powers.The common ground of both Capitalism and Socialism is a materialistic view of life and being. Materialism in its war with the Spirit has taken on many forms; some have promoted its goals with great subtlety, whilst others have done so with an alarming lack of subtlety, but all have added, in greater or lesser measure, to the growing misery of Mankind. The forms which have done the most damage in our time may be enumerated as: Freemasonry, Liberalism, Nihilism, Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism, Imperialism, Anarchism, Modernism and the New Age.
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over.
— Henry Cloud, Boundaries in Dating
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death
—  the modern man's worst fear is just death
Is it really worth dying for the person you lo
— Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines
Charles is going to be fine," said Annie. "Yep," said Jack with a smile. "He never even knew that it was us who helped him." "That's the best way to help someone, I think," said Annie. "Why?" asked Jack. "Then you know you're not helping them just to get a lot of credit," said Annie. "You're helping because it's the right thing to do.
— Mary Pope Osborne, A Ghost Tale for Christmas Time
You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
— Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer
Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.
— Charles J. Chaput
Whatever modern democracies may tell themselves about their commitment to free speech and to diversity of opinion, the values of a given society will uncannily match those of whichever organizations have the scale to pay for runs of thirty-second slots around the nightly news bulletin.
— Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Value oriented is the worst thing that you get from your hard process. That's not a good finale, that's really worst finale
— Estiana Cahyawati
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
— Isaac Asimov, Foundation
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
— George Orwell
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit
— John F. Kennedy
See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
— Noam Chomsky
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.
— John Lennon
Repeat one word of what I just said and I'll cheerfully beat you to death, Mike.
— Stephenie Meyer
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact
—  non-Westerners never do.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.
— Robert Muchamore, Shadow Wave
Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
— Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
But before he could either comfort me or commit further acts of violence upon my person, I spun away from him and made my drama queen moment complete by running away.
— Rachel Hawkins, Hex Hall
I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse."Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!
— Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
— Mao Zedong
The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.
— Chris Hedges
The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.
— Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Violence?"Skulduggery said. "Violence is never the answer, until it's the only answer.
— Derek Landy, The Dying of the Light
You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, I'm telling you why,Cause Santa Clause might put a cap in your ass.
— Craig Ferguson
Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque...My mother stands there at the living room door with her arms by her sides. And I think that there's violence in that too - in her inability to reach out to me, to make the gesture which is impossible and so forever suspended.
— Delphine de Vigan, No and Me
The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).
— Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
1. So, disturbed kids are taking guns to school and killing teachers and classmates. We better make sure kids can’t get guns.2. So, disturbed kids are taking guns to school and killing teachers and classmates. We better find out what’s making these kids want to kill, fix that, and then they won’t want to use guns to kill teachers and classmates.See what I did there? Which statement makes more sense? Don’t bring up politics. Don’t refer to statistical data. Don’t nervously look at your cell phone. Just read the two statements and be honest with yourself. We can do better. We’re smarter than this. WAKE UP.
— Aaron B. Powell, Guns Part 2
In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.
— Emily Thorne
You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty boxes of chocolates. The cruel part - watching two guys hitting each other, maybe hurting each other, while they're safe in the bleachers. That's why it works, Carter, because we're all bastards.
— Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.
— H.C. Paye
It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.
— Kristin Cashore, Graceling
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
— R.D. Laing
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momen
— Mahatma Gandhi
Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.
— J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.
— Aysha Taryam
People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing.
— Louis L'Amour, The Daybreakers
Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses.~Kyoya
— Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 17
We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work.
— Oscar A. Romero, The Violence of Love
Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
— Antonia Fraser
Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.
— Benjamin R.  Smith, Atlas
The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps
— James Gilligan
Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.
— Iris Murdoch, The Bell
A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.
— Maximilien de Robespierre
I think it would be cool if we wore suits while we committed these violent acts of retribution. Not fancy suits. No. Cheap suits that we won't mind ruining. Then if we're caught by the police, well, think how amazing we'll look! All bloody and torn and grizzled.Plus, suits look official. They would add an air of credibility to our campaign of blood drenched disproportionate responses.
— Joey Comeau, We all got it coming
Violence is as American as cherry pie
— H.R. Schiffman