Top 100 Quotes About Personal Values
#1. The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation
abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a "virtue" that corrodes self-esteem.
Nathaniel Branden
#2. Our attitudes and personal values create outcomes. The consequence of any venture shapes our evolving ethical precepts, and the product of a sundry of worldly experiences in turn establishes our personality.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#3. In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees' personal values. The best people want to do work that contributes to society with a company whose values they share, where their actions count and their views matter.
Jeroen Van Der Veer
#4. There's too much judgment out there. Really what we need to be doing is just all of us finding our own paths towards living the best lives we can live as clearly and boldly in accordance with our own personal values. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Cory Booker
#5. The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.
Stan Slap
#6. We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.
James E. Faust
#7. Your gift of positive influence will open the eyes of many people. They'll be able to recognise their personal values which will lead them to live authentic lives and achieve the impossible.
Euginia Herlihy
#8. Surveys of personal values in men and women find that the men assign a lopsided value to professional status compared to all the other pleasures of life.108
Steven Pinker
#9. You'll give up nothing to live your personal values at work. The same can't be said about choosing not to.
Stan Slap
#10. I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.
Brene Brown
#11. I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values - and not just the stated ones.
Tony Hsieh
#12. Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
Arthur Peacocke
#13. Living with integrity means ... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
Barbara De Angelis
#14. Because a person's awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever. Order is dependent on the extremely personal values of what a person wants to live with.
Marie Kondo
#15. Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values.
Tony Hsieh
#16. Sex is the physical expression of a tribute to personal values.
Ayn Rand
#17. Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love o fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)
Rollo May
#18. Children's lives are not shaped solely by their families or immediate surroundings at large. That is why we must avoid the false dichotomy that says only government or only family is responsible ... Personal values and national policies must both play a role.
Hillary Clinton
#19. Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Rollo May
#20. But to conservatives whose value system gives priority to Moral Strength, the problem of drugs is the personal lack of the moral strength to just say no. It is a problem of personal values, not of social change or drug treatment centers.
George Lakoff
#21. The answer goes back to why God created us.He created us to be His loved ones,His family with whom He can share a relationship of mutual enjoyment. This shows the kind of God He is-a personal God who values loving relationships more than anything else in all the universe.
Ruth Myers
#22. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution. ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
Beth Buelow
#23. Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.
James H. Austin
#24. I have enjoyed the personal use of money; but I have gotten the greatest satisfaction from using it to advance my beliefs in human relations, human values.
Winthrop Rockefeller
#25. The truly wealthy don't often pursue status. They don't need to. They have already made it. The pursuit of Rolex watches and $100,000 vehicles is for wannabes like you and me. Why pursue status when you've already achieved it?
Erik Wecks
#26. Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
Jim DeMint
#27. Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.
Neal A. Maxwell
#28. when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comes
the necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older.
Derric Yuh Ndim
#29. Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
Stephen Covey
#30. One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#31. An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.
Pope Francis
#32. To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you're trying to accomplish.
Beverly K. Bachel
#34. The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.
Max Weber
#35. In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.
Paul Goodman
#36. One of the great things about the X Games and the Olympics is being on the international stage. It gives you a cool opportunity to express, not only your personal style, but also your faith and what you believe in and your values.
Nick Goepper
#37. I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.
Cindy Gallop
#38. Only by digging deep down to the core of our true self can we come to a place of inner certainty. Our underlying values and priorities are our personal navigational stars on life's journey - essential tools to chart a life course that embraces what matters most to us.
Marian Deegan
#39. Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.
Jamake Highwater
#40. Absolute values are the things that are important whether you like them or not. Relative values depend on social contexts and personal preferences and conditions of life. Our current market system pursues relative transient values at the cost of absolute lasting values.
Ilchi Lee
#41. We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
Vicente Del Bosque
#42. How you define an event produces emotion
and determines how you feel going forward
Derric Yuh Ndim
#43. Make sure your reading, studying or research are always adding value to the defined vision, mission, beliefs and values that form your unique personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#44. Sacrifices. They married in record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation, the Baby Boomers. They stayed true to their values of personal responsibility, duty, honor, and faith.
Tom Brokaw
#45. Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge
Derric Yuh Ndim
#46. The counterculture had sought to practice the idea that creative personal expression was the essence of an authentic existence. The WELL, drawing strength from the Internet culture's belief that the market contains all values, put personal expression up for sale.
Lee Siegel
#47. Personal freedom and interpersonal relationships in marriage are positive aspects of growth in marriage. At the same time they can pose a serious danger in family harmony and degradation of some of the fundamental values if carried too far.
Anonymous
#48. An exceptional brand culture has the effect of a charm, it entices and binds people.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#49. What are the obvious temptations and inclinations that consistently call me or entice me to go against my personal beliefs, values and standards? You don't need a prophet for this!
Archibald Marwizi
#50. witness the sad demise of fundamental Western values. Pride. Order. Personal responsibility.
Richard Russo
#51. When I say that Latinos share conservative values, when Ronald Reagan said that, we mean the love of family, the love of country, a commitment to personal responsibility, to hard work.
Lionel Sosa
#52. In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself ... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it.
Nkem Paul
#53. Don't take it personal. Whether people like or dislike you, it most probably is because of your beliefs, principles, and values...
Assegid Habtewold
#54. To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Dorothy L. Sayers
#55. Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
Nancy Pearcey
#56. The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.
Anne Applebaum
#57. Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
Timothy Ferriss
#58. Being an effective person-centred counsellor is not so much a matter of possessing skills and knowledge, but of having a particular set of deeply-held values and beliefs and then being able to express these qualities in interactions with other people.
John McLeod
#59. In her focus on personal comfort, she had forgotten about eternal values.
Amanda Tero
#60. I want people to hear what I think about these foundational American values of personal responsibility, resilience, family and faith, there are things that people can learn from somebody who leads a state like Ohio which is, frankly, a microcosm of the country.
John Kasich
#61. There should be a healthy 'stubbornness', assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#62. Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!
Oswald Chambers
#63. We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
Wendy Kopp
#64. To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
Herbert Read
#65. A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.
Israelmore Ayivor
#66. Material poverty doesn't cause
murder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does.
Derric Yuh Ndim
#67. Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.
Dan Quayle
#68. When you find the absolute values, you are important to this world because you know what is important. Those who know what is truly important are helpful to this world, because they won't put their personal concerns before what is important to all.
Ilchi Lee
#69. Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It doesn't begin and end with the writing of a personal mission statement. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Stephen R. Covey
#70. Your life is not a result of your potential, skills or desires,
but of your consistent expectations and actions, which largely flow from your values and beliefs.
Christopher Babson
#71. Discipleship is developing a personal, lifelong, obedient relationship with Jesus Christ in which He transforms your character into Christlikeness; changes your values to Kingdom values; and involves you in His mission in the home, in the church, and in the world.
Avery T. Willis Jr.
#72. The core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed
Jonathon Porritt
#73. I know - from personal experience - that abiding values and abundant visions are learned in the homes of our people.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#74. The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow For better or for worse
it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option
Tom Brokaw
#75. I love to help women cut through all the labeling loopholes to find the best personal and oral care products on the market. This includes, of course, ingredients, but also recyclable packaging, products with expiration dates, examining company values (which includes no animal testing), and more.
Sophie Heyman Uliano
#76. I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.
Platon
#77. My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.
Bonnie Hammer
#78. Help others find their way, their own values, and guide them through life's ups and downs.
Hyrum W. Smith
#79. In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.
Shari Arison
#80. The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.
Tipper Gore
#81. Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which are based on perennial values, such as hospitality, solidarity, and the sharing of the toil of labor.
Pope Benedict XVI
#82. Your governing values should be important enough to you that you will invest your time, resources, and energy in making them a fundamental part of your life.
Hyrum W. Smith
#83. our value/belief system acts as a
conditioning factor for our thinking pattern.
Derric Yuh Ndim
#84. We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.
Robert L. Payton
#85. Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#86. Have a set of core values you must follow while living your life. It should be your Personal Constitution.
Sanchita Pandey
#87. Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
Gary Bauer
#88. The question is whether voters, particularly independents, believe that Obama truly values personal liberty and responsibility as much as the government-bought safety net.
Ron Fournier
#89. It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).
Marjorie Hillis
#90. Intrinsic values and qualities are age-free. For example, social competencies or a good heart.
Rossana Condoleo
#91. I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.
John Kasich
#92. Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
#93. In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.
Billy Graham
#94. Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search
for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.
Warren Farrell
#95. Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service.
Michael E. DeBakey
#96. Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.
Kobe Bryant
#97. When you have defined your mission, values and attitudes in the context of leadership influence and excellence, you also need to conduct a personal audit, checking how aligned they are to your current leadership practices. Where necessary, begin to make adjustments.
Archibald Marwizi
#98. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
Stephen Covey
#99. During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation.
Tim Walberg
#100. Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
Tony Hsieh
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