Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Values

The stuff that’s most important to me in life can’t be bought—it can only be earned.
Steve Pavlina (b.1971) American Motivational Speaker

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart”. Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Rollo May (1909–94) American Philosopher

One’s real worth is never a quantifiable thing.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov (1920–92) Russian-born American Writer, Scientist

A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity…one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.
Steve Pavlina (b.1971) American Motivational Speaker

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we develop genuine concern for his or her problem. This is genuine compassion. Usually when we are concerned about a close friend, we call this compassion. This is not compassion; it is attachment. Even in marriage, those marriages that last only a short time do so because of attachment—although it is generally present—but because there is also compassion. Marriages that last only a short time do so because of a lack of compassion; there is only emotional attachment based on projection and expectation. When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one’s projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears—because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment—and similarly, to have anger without hatred. Therefore we need to clarify the distinctions between compassion and attachment, and between anger and hatred. Such clarity is useful in our daily life and in our efforts towards world peace. I consider these to be basic spiritual values for the happiness of all human beings, regardless of whether one is a believer or a nonbeliever.
The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader, Civil Rights Leader, Philosopher, Author

Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.
John Kerry (b.1943) American Politician, Diplomat

A man’s worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.
Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
Barack Obama (b.1961) American Head of State, Academic, Politician, Author

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett (b.1930) American Investor

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of a disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Look at the word responsibility—“response-ability”—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919–1990) American Publisher, Businessperson

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian Short-Story Writer

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar

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 (b.1961) American Head of State, Academic, Politician, Author

One of the great arts in living is to learn the art of accurately appraising values. Everything that we think, that we earn, that we have given to us, that in any way touches our consciousness, has its own value. These values are apt to change with the mood, with time, or because of circumstances. We cannot safely tie to any material value. The values of all material possessions change continually, sometimes over night. Nothing of this nature has any permanent set value. The real values are those that stay by you, give you happiness and enrich you. They are the human values.
George Matthew Adams (1878–1962) American Columnist, Journalist

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 (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

That which costs little is less valued.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist

The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) American Self-help Author

All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.
Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) American Nationalist, Author, Pamphleteer, Radical, Inventor

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British Scientist, Science-fiction Writer

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer

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