Individual Values Quotes

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices. That which happened by accident - what family you were born into, in what country, and where you went to school - is totally unimportant.

I wrote 'A Mindful Nation' to promote the values of slowing down, taking care of ourselves, being kind, and helping each other. It seems to me that if we embrace these values individually, it will benefit us collectively. And our country will be a little bit better off as a result.

When the opportunities come, Cemaat participants, just like any other citizen will make their choices based on their values.

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is - since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something.

The profound influence of religion on American politics is vital, but it is best when indirect: on the morals, habits, and souls of individual Americans; on the political climate and the principals that should guide policy, rather than on specific policies themselves…

Collective action is a means of power, a means by which individuals can more fully realize their individual values.

I believe religion is important for every person.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Love what you do, or don't do it. Don't make a choice of any kind, whether in career or in life, just because it pleases others or because it ranks high on someone else's scale of achievement...Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

People will judge you according to your own convictions.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.

When I interview people, I look at their values. I always say that the best chance of success is if the individual's values are aligned with the corporate values.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.