Values Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about values.

Walter C. Sellar

Walter C. Sellar

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For every person who wants to teach, there are approximately thirty people who do not want to learn.

Ramón J. Sénder

Ramón J. Sénder

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How small are my hands in relation to everything that life has wanted to give me!

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

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If men use their freedom in such a way that they renounce it, can they be considered any less slaves? If the people choose by plebiscite a despot to govern them, are they still free because despotism has been their own doing?

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

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If it is a duty to respect the rights of others, it is also a duty to maintain one's own.

Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

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Only that which exists out of the needs of its own nature and whose actions originate exclusively within itself is free.

Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, trust, and justice.

Germaine de Staël

Germaine de Staël

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Freedom is incompatible with love. A lover is always a slave.

Germaine de Staël

Germaine de Staël

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The mystery of life is the connection between our mistakes and our misfortunes.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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In front of us there are a thousand different lives we could live, but when it arrives, it will only be one.

Stendhal

Stendhal

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I honor with the name of virtue the habit of carrying out painful and useful actions for others.

Stendhal

Stendhal

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Courage consists of knowing how to choose the lesser evil, no matter how horrible it may seem.

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne

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This is called perseverance in a good cause and obstinacy in a bad one.