Quotes of Values - somelinesforyou

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

- Ayn Rand

“ Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate. ”

- Craig Newmark

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril. ”

- J. William Fulbright

“ Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change. ”

- Jane Goodall

“ Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. ”

- Louis D. Brandeis

“ If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. ”

- Michael Josephson

“ The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. ”

- Norman Thomas

“ The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values. ”

- Norman Thomas

“ He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. ”

- William Hazlitt

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

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

- Ayn Rand

“ The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values. ”

- Norman Thomas

“ Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. ”

- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

“ If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. ”

- Michael Josephson

“ It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. ”

- Roy Disney

“ 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

“ We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. ”

- Allan Bloom

“ Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional… values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ If you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike. ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. ”

- Jacob Bronowski
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