1,638 Quotes About Values

To forgo every achievement that would demand the sacrifice of our character is by far one of the greatest achievements of all.

Too often our convictions are based on what is convenient. For if convictions are convenient, they are neither.

How often have I lifted my foot to take a peek at what I’m standing on, only to discover that there’s nothing there and that I’ve been confusing ‘falling’ with ‘standing.

If I should be so foolish as to hold ethics as the ignorance of a generation long passed, my life will pass in the ignorance of a generation that handed me what was genius.

Accountability is where the cowardice of my teetering self-image is wrangled into submission by the force of my ethics.

Truth is the thing that protects me from chasing the stuff that will rather quickly end up chasing me.

All of Western civilization is highly influenced by the Bible, so much so that today people take for granted that our morals and our values are not common sense, but biblically based.

I don't recognize any authority, for human civilization has only one authority, it's the authority of human values.

Values should dictate a society, not superstitions.