Values Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about values.

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.

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne

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Science can be learned by heart, but wisdom cannot.

E. W. Stevens

E. W. Stevens

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The most essential condition to be optimistic is to have absolute confidence in oneself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We are in such a hurry to do, write, and make our voice heard in the silence of eternity, that we forget the only truly important thing: to live.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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To be what we are and to become what we are capable of being is the only purpose of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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It is better to live and die at once than to languish every day in our room under the pretext of preserving ourselves.