Values Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about values.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, oppose effort, and paralyze vitality.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already half dead.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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A good life is one inspired by love and guided by intelligence.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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Do not consider it appropriate to act by hiding evidence, as evidence eventually comes to light.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell

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Be honest, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it becomes even more inconvenient when you try to hide it.

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

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Life is like an onion, it peels away layer by layer, and sometimes it makes you cry.

Saint Teresa of Jesus

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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Oh, how long this life is! / How hard these exiles are! / This prison, these chains / in which the soul is confined! / Only waiting for the way out causes me such fierce pain, / that I am dying because I do not die.

Saint Teresa of Jesus

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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I live without living in me, and I hope for such a high life that I die because I do not die.

Saint Teresa of Jesus

Saint Teresa of Jesus

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Live life in such a way that it remains alive in death.

George Santayana

George Santayana

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Life is not meant to be understood, but to be lived.

George Santayana

George Santayana

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Our adherence to a natural leader is not a loss of freedom, it is the recognition that our ideas have an executor and an interpreter.