"Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do."
– Elvis Presley
"Open your arms to change but don’t let go of your values."
– Dalai Lama
"“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
"Good values are like a magnet – they attract good people."
– John Wooden
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values."
– Ayn Rand
" So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
– Ernest Hemingway
"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
– Jimmy Carter
"The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We need to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
– Omar Bradley
"Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change."
– Jane Goodall
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny."
– Mahatma Gandhi
"Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose."
– Edward de Bono
"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."
– Albert Einstein
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
– Aristotle
"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."
– Ayn Rand
"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."
– Thomas Jefferson
"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
– Oscar Wilde
"Morality is truth in full bloom."
– Victor Hugo