Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.

Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas¹ Shrugged²

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)

People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.

Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Inaugural³ Address, January 20, 1953

It is not our affluence⁴, or our plumbing⁵, or our clogged⁶ freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence⁷ not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive⁸ social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril⁹.

J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Remarks in the Senate, June 29, 1961

Lasting¹⁰ change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

Jane Goodall (1934 - )

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion¹¹ at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty¹² of our material blessings¹³.

Jimmy Carter (1924 - )

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted¹⁴ to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), in his farewell address

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics¹⁵, that's exactly what they'll become.

Michael Josephson

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties¹⁶ and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)