1,638 Quotes About Values

People who don't have valuesShow their beautyWho don't have beautyShow their shame

In a democracy, we are all trusted cup-bearers to each other, commissioned by our common purpose and citizenship to be city builders and community builders.

You will either have value, or be grist for the mill — nothing more.

I think everything begins and ends with philosophy. Philosophy is not appreciated and is marginal now.

We live in a culture in which we are led to believe that anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.

 It is important to appreciate, as we look at where present-day values and beliefs originated, that nothing is new. It is all inherited from, or influenced by, what has happened in the past.

Africans have more of internal qualities; love, respect and values

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity—not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur