Values Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about values.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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The faithfulness of many men is based on laziness, the faithfulness of many women on habit.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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There are no small countries. The greatness of a nation is not measured by the number of its constituents, just as the greatness of a man is not measured by his height.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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Indigestion is in charge of preaching morality to the stomach.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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To try, to challenge, to persist, to persevere, to be true to oneself, to fight fiercely against destiny, to astonish catastrophe with our lack of fear, sometimes facing unjust power and other times rebelling against drunken victory, to resist, to stand up: that is the example that people need and the electrifying light.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I don't ask for wealth, or hopes, or love, or a friend who understands me; all I ask for is the sky above me and a path at my feet.

Tacitus

Tacitus

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Purchased loyalty is always suspicious and, generally, short-lived.

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

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I cannot wish for the good ones to win, as I do not know who they are.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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I want to live and die in the army of the humble, joining my prayers to theirs, with the holy freedom of the obedient.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Don't give someone what they ask for, but rather what you understand they need; and then endure the ingratitude.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

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The best of life is spent saying 'it's too soon,' and then it's 'too late'.