These value quotes will inspire you. Value is the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something or a person’s principles or standards of behavior; one’s judgment of what is important in life.
The value estimates the monetary worth of (something) or considers (someone or something) to be important or beneficial; have a high opinion of.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging value quotes, value sayings, and value proverbs.
Famous Value Quotes
- “The value of achievement lies in the achieving.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” ~ Anton Chekhov
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“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do” ~ Elvis Presley
- “Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.” ~ Joshua L. Liebman
- “Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is within the family that they form their earliest relationships, learn to communicate with others and interact with the world around them. It is within the family that the notion of human rights becomes a reality lived on a daily basis. If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.” ~ Kofi Annan , Value quotes in relationship
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“Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “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.” ~ John F. Kerry
- “Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.” ~ Edward de Bono
- “If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“You must look within for value,
but must look beyond for perspective.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.” ~ Robert M. Pirsig
- “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.” ~ Jane Goodall
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“Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.” ~ Charles Lindbergh
- “Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.” ~ Kent Nerburn , Value quotes about life
- “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” ~ M. Scott Peck
- “Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of value is the core experience of powerlessness.” ~ Gary Zukav
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“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world’s people share the benefits of globalization.” ~ Kofi Annan
- “It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke
- “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
- “If tolerance, respect, and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.” ~ Kofi Annan
- “The best thing in life aren’t things.” ~ John Ruskin
- “We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don’t vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.” ~ Joan Blades
- “It’s crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.” ~ Rebecca Adamson
- “In his scientific genius, man has wrought material miracles and has transformed his world. He has harnassed nature and has developed great civilizations. But he has never learned very well how to live with himself. The values he has created have been predominantly materialistic; his spiritual values have lagged far behind. He has demonstrated little spiritual genius and has made little progress toward the realization of human brotherhood. In the contemporary atomic age, this could prove man’s fatal weakness.” ~ Ralph Bunche
- “In many parts of the world, the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.” ~ Lech Walesa
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“I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people’s behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “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
- “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
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“Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?” ~ Stephen Covey
- “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
- “~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use, we make of them ~” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery” ~ Ben Harper
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“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” ~ William Ralph Inge
- “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ~ Epictetus
- “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Value choices are intuitive… It’s fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.” ~ Sara Genn
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“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
- “Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.” ~ Jan Peter Balkenende
- “Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.” ~ John Singer Sargent
- “A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.” ~ Andy Grove
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“The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.” ~ Charles Garfield
- “And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.” ~ John F. Kerry
- “It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.” ~ V. S. Naipaul
- “Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman
- “A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.'” ~ Claude Pepper
- “We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace.” ~ Jim Rohn
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“If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?” ~ Paul Wellstone
- “To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.” ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen , Value quotes of person
- “* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.” ~ Oren Lyons
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“It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.” ~ Fernando Henrique Cardoso
- “On issue after issue, the polls – and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time – show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.” ~ Katrina vanden Heuvel
- “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
Value a fair return in goods, services, or money for something exchanged.
