Inspirational value quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
Most Famous Value Quotes
Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear,and not bothering. – A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Compassion is the ultimate value in life. Service is the ultimate action. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy, feeling one’s own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul. – Maria Montessori
There is more value in a very good paintingthat is completed and on display,than in an excellent paintingthat is still in the artist’s studio,or perhaps still in his mind. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. – Henry David Thoreau
Strive not to be a success,but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success,but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. – Marcus Aurelius
Value your own opinion more, and others’ opinions less. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We’re so engaged in doing thingsto achieve purposes of outer valuethat we forget the inner value,the rapture that is associatedwith being alive, is what it is all about. – Joseph Campbell
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. – C. S. Lewis
Bad times have a scientific value.These are occasions a good learner would not miss. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are only four questions of value in life…What is sacred?Of what is the spirit made?What is worth living for,and what is worth dying for?The answer to each is the same: only love. – Johnny Depp as Don Juan in the movie Don Juan De Marco
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident. – John C. Maxwell
Each of us is of infinite value,and each of us has the ability to make a profound difference in the lives we touch.We leave our most profoundly positive impact on those around us by the nature of our lives and the example we set -not by how busy we are,or how important we believe we are.Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,regardless of external circumstances,is a great legacy for our family and for the world. Self importance ego is not a path to happiness. Focusing one’s whole life on responsibilities, without taking time for self-renewal and play,abandons the joy and the true value of life.I want my tombstone to read, “”Inspired others,””rather than, “”Never missed a day at the office.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. – Sigmund Freud
The success of love is in the loving -it is not in the result of loving.Of course it is natural in loveto want the best for the other person,but whether it turns out that way or notdoes not determine the value of what we have done. – Mother Teresa
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. – Edgar Allan Poe
Most people don’t CHOOSE their value system -they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO, the actions we take. We also highly value what we SAY. However, the greatest impact we have on our family, our friends, and our world is our kindness and love.A bowl of soup served with love is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in? – Alexis de Tocqueville
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon itand no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. – Henry David Thoreau
Manage through the uncertainties.Practice appropriate actions and participate in healthy choices.Value and celebrate the loyalty of the individuals around you:celebrate their competencies and successes, as well as your own.Build up your circle and reinforce it at every opportunity. – Mary Anne Radmacher
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. – Ida Tarbell
The value of a man should be seen in what he givesand not in what he is able to receive. – Albert Einstein
A man who dares to waste one hour of timehas not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin
A wise man will make haste to forgive,because he knows the true value of time,and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. – Samuel Johnson
My experiment in money exchange was the temptation to set up a bank. The absence of any Islamic banking was also another factor in establishing Al-Rajhi Bank, which is now the world’s biggest Islamic lender by market value. – Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
Before you can forgive others, you must be a person whose forgiveness matters. Before you can have gratitude for your life, you must believe that your life has value. Before your choices have value, you must feel that you yourself have value. Before you can dream a great dream for your future, you have to believe that your future matters. Before you can build positive habits of resolve and commitment, before you can begin to live into the Japanese proverb,”Fall seven times, stand up eight,” you must believe that your life matters. Before you can celebrate your life, you must Honor it. And, before you can feel unity with, and Honor toward, Spirit and all creation,you must Honor yourself to feel worthy of that unity. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. – Albert Einstein
It’s one of life’s great paradoxes… Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at usis critical to happiness. Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value. The best we can do in the face of this paradox is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat and ready to play again. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it’seducational value for our lives today,not in regret, resentment, or revenge. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. – Benjamin Franklin
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,but I cherish the friend who for medoes not consult his calendar. – Robert Brault
Living Into the Great Paradox, I strive toward my vision, while accepting gratefully whatever life serves up. I work to bring about my vision of the future, which is based on my value system of what is right, just, noble, compassionate, generous, humane, peaceful, and loving. Simultaneously, I accept that my vision is based on only my opinions and prejudices, and I honor all points of view and value systems, no matter how different from my own. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value. – Friedrich Nietzsche
There are choirs singing in your head. If you listen, you will hear the music. It is the song of angels. Pay no attention to the sounds of the world. They are just noises, and even when added up all together they have no value, make no sense. Strain to hear the song of angels. Listen to the melody within your soul. – Neale Donald Walsch
If you doubt the virtue in self-honor,remember what the flight attendant says,”Put your own oxygen mask on first.” You are of no use to anyone else if you have not taken care of your own needs first -this includes your own emotional, as well as physical, well-being. In addition, your greatest value to your children, your family, your friends, and your community is the example you set, leading a great life that inspires those around you to emulate your being. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward. – Wayne Dyer
There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit.It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value. – Ellen Goodman
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. – Charles Caleb Colton
I learned the value of hard work by working hard. – Margaret Mead
I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, “I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. – T. S. Eliot
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth.The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. – Mark Twain
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everythingand the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde
Beliefs have evolved based on survival value. Certain belief systems have been more conductive than others to people living long enough to reproduce, and having a high rate of reproduction. It’s that basic. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor. – Barack Obama
Too often the great decisions are originated and given formin bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominatedby them that whatever of special value womenhave to offer is shunted aside without expression. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Choose the whole of your environment, things and events,based upon the value, meaning and function they hold.Do not allow obligation or immediacyto bind you to physical things or specific actions. – Mary Anne Radmacher
I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. – Dalai Lama
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoeverto do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. – Oscar Wilde
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting.We allow them to disperse becausewe’ve been ignorant of their value. – R. Buckminster Fuller
Simplicity and repose are qualitiesthat measure the true value of any work of art. – Frank Lloyd Wright
He who is contented is rich. – Lao Tzu
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. – Carl Sagan
You will not be punished for your anger,you will be punished by your anger. – The Buddha
If we have no peace,it is because we have forgottenthat we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa
Life is a reflection of intent.Love reflects love.Hate reflects hate. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As we work to create light for others,we naturally light our own way. – Mary Anne Radmacher
Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. – Pablo Picasso
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use the power of your wordin the direction of truth and love. – don Miguel Ruiz
Laugh when you can,apologize when you should,and let go of what you can’t change.Life’s too short to be anything… but happy. – Anonymous
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The Main Thing is to KeepThe Main Thing The Main Thing. – Stephen Covey
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil. – Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Create happiness for others. – Dale Carnegie
Listen to the compass of your heart.All you need lies within you. – Mary Anne Radmacher
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. – Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. – Bertrand Russell
How do you want to be remembered?Live life full out – Begin today. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoidself-judgment, self-abuse and regret. – don Miguel Ruiz
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. – Jim Rohn
He is richest who is content with the least,for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates
The essence of life is not inthe great victories and grand failures,but in the simple joys. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If it’s Right, stand up for it – together. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. – Thomas A. Edison
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumphis for enough good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke
This above all, to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. – Orison Swett Marden
I do not need anyone’s permission to be my true self. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silentabout things that matter. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
The future belongs to thosewho believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,but a means by which we arrive at that goal. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today, I choose the higher road -the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. – Socrates
Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living. – Orison Swett Marden
Compassion is to be valued more than law. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. – Stephen Covey
Honor, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Choice,Vision, Action, Celebration, Unity -The Values of an Inspired Life. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Say NO to the demands of the world. Say YES to the longings of your own heart. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value. – Joyce Meyer
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
