When your values are clear, decisions become easier. Great leaders unite teams around shared values, and the right words can help. These 100 quotes on values are ideal for team meetings, culture campaigns and moments of reflection.
- When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
– Roy E. Disney - Our value is the sum of our values.
- Joe Batten - If you don’t stick to your values when they are being tested, they’re not values, they’re hobbies.
- Job Stewart - Good moral values are mostly molded from a place where love, faith, and hope exist.
- Arsenio V. Manalo Jr - Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.
- Mark Richardson - Never compromise your values.
- Steve Maraboli - Your attitude is an expression of your values and expectations.
- Zabid Abas - Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values.
- Dalai Lama - I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me those are traditional values.
- Ellen Degeneres - Great people have great values and great ethics.
- Jeffrey Gitomer - Living with integrity means behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
- Barbara De Angelis - Our mission and core values drive our culture and are the foundation of our practice. We measure each decision against these standards.
- Chris Hanslik - If we lose our human values by having everything mechanized, then machines will dictate our lives.
- Dalai Lama - Your personal core values define who you are.
- Tony Hsieh - Values are like fingerprints. Nobodies are the same but you leave them all over everything you do.
- Elvis Presley - Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situations that threaten your peace of mind, self-respect, values, morals or self-worth.
- Anonymous - When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.
- John C. Maxwell - Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have that sense from childhood memories when life was simple. It’s those memories that should drive us to reflect on our values.
- Lindsay Fox - The cultivation of human values alone is education.
- Sathya Sai Baba - Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi - I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values, and follow my own moral compass, then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.
- Michelle Obama - A mission statement is not something you write overnight but fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
- Stephen Covey - Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love, and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
- Deepak Chopra - I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
- Sidney Poitier - Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people.
- John Wooden - Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
- Sai Baba - My father taught my siblings and me the importance of positive values and a strong ethical compass. He showed us how to be resilient, how to deal with challenges, and how to strive for excellence in all that we do. He taught us that there’s nothing that we cannot accomplish if we marry vision and passion with an enduring work ethic.
- Ivanka Trump - Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
- Ayn Rand - Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.
- John C. Maxwell - Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.
- Les Brown - Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.
- Ralph Marston - You don’t have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.
- Gilbert Baker - I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.
- Howard Schultz - Values reflect what is important to the way you live and work.
- Anonymous - Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do is a reflection of our own personal value system. What do we mean by values? Our values are what we want out of life.
– Jacques Fresco - Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
– Mahatma Gandhi - Values are like fingerprints. Nobody is the same, but you leave them all over everything you do.
- Elvis Presley - Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
– Stephen Covey - Be a living expression of your values, wear them, speak them, make decisions aligned with them.
– Anon - I think self knowledge is a key to happiness. We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.
– Gretchen Rubin - A clear purpose will unite you as you move forward, values will guide your behavior, and goals will focus your energy.
– Kenneth H. Blanchard - Create a life that feels good on the inside, not one that just looks good on the outside.
– Anon - A highly developed value system is like a compass. It serves as a guide to point you in the right direction when you are lost.
– Idowu Koyenika - The difference between values, intentions and goals is who you want to be in this world versus what you want to do in this world.
- Christie Inge - My beliefs run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right or wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
– Ed Miliband - It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
– Roy E. Disney - Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values.
– Dalai Lama - You’ll always be disappointed when you expect people to act as you would.
– anonymous - The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.
– Stan Slap - Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
– Barbara De Angelis - Your personal values are the soul of your life, they drive your behavior.
– Rajendra Muthye - Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives.
– Anthon St. Maarten - When making a decision, big or small, choose in favor of your values. Your values will always point you to the life that holds the most meaning and happiness.
– Rob Kaiser - A value driven life minimizes limitations and maximizes achievements.
– Tandar Tanavoli - Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.
- Kenneth I Chenault - Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
– Oscar Wilde - Focus not on doing less or doing more, but on doing what you value.
– Gretchen Rubin - Life is too short and too precious to waste it living out someone else’s values. We must find our own.
– John Norman - Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it’s an expression of your true core.
– Shoshana Zuboff - People who live a life of purpose have core beliefs and values that influence their decisions, shape their day-to-day actions, and determine their short- and long-term priorities.
– Frank Sonnenberg - Core values serve as a lighthouse when the fog of life seems to leave you wandering in circles.
– J Loren Norris - Just be yourself and stay true to your core values.
- Ben Quayle - When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.
– John C. Maxwell - Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.
- Ralph Marston - Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.
– Les Brown - My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviour.
– John Spence - In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson - A core value is a principle without which life wouldn’t be worth living.
– Dave Logan - The secret to achieving inner peace lies in understanding our inner core values.
– Hyrum W. Smith - Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible.
– Roy T Bennett - The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
- Albert Einstein - The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
– Jim Rohn - Our value is the sum of our values.
– Joseph Batten - The value of life is not based on how long we live, but how much we contribute to others in our society.
- Buddha - Ask yourself what is really important and then have the courage to build your life around the answer.
– Anonymous - What is important is to have values in life. What’s important is how you are, not how you look.
– Valeria Mazza - You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
– Annie Lennox - Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and they protect you from whatever life throws at you.
- Queen Rania of Jordan - Values offer focus amidst the chaos.
– Glenn C. Stewart - Your values are embedded within you irrespective of whether you discover them or not. Even if you never find them, they still govern your life.
- Dr Prem Jagyasi - Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves.
– Tasneem Hameed - The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
– Robert Byrne - You don’t have forever. You have 24 hours each day to live by your values. People remember you only for what was most important in your life.
– J. R. Rim - When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
-Roy E. Disney - Our value is the sum of our values.
-Joe Batten - If you don’t stick to your values when they are being tested, they’re not values, they’re hobbies.
- Job Stewart - Good moral values are mostly molded from a place where love, faith, and hope exist.
- Arsenio V. Manalo Jr - Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.
- Mark Richardson - Never compromise your values.
- Steve Maraboli - Your attitude is an expression of your values and expectations.
- Zabid Abas - Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values.
– Dalai Lama - I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me those are traditional values.
- Ellen Degeneres - Great people have great values and great ethics.
- Jeffrey Gitomer - Living with integrity means behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
- Barbara De Angelis - Our mission and core values drive our culture and are the foundation of our practice. We measure each decision against these standards.
- Chris Hanslik - If we lose our human values by having everything mechanized, then machines will dictate our lives.
- Dalai Lama - Your personal core values define who you are.
- Tony Hsieh - Values are like fingerprints. Nobodies are the same but you leave them all over everything you do.
- Elvis Presley - Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situations that threaten your peace of mind, self-respect, values, morals or self-worth.
- Anonymous - When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.
- John C. Maxwell - Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have that sense from childhood memories when life was simple. It’s those memories that should drive us to reflect on our values.
- Lindsay Fox