Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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 (1905 - 1982), Atlas1 Shrugged2
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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 (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Inaugural3 Address, January 20, 1953
It is not our affluence4, or our plumbing5, or our clogged6 freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence7 not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive8 social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril9.
J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Remarks in the Senate, June 29, 1961
Lasting10 change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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 cohesion11 at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty12 of our material blessings13.
Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
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 tempted14 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 (1924 - ), in his farewell address
Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.
Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics15, that's exactly what they'll become.
Michael Josephson
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties16 and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
