Famous Quotes: V
Values
“For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?” (Matthew 16:26)
“There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed." (Frank Buchman)
“Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.” (Augustine of Hippo)
“People want riches; they need fulfillment.” (Robert Conklin)
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” (John W. Gardner)
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” (Warren Buffett)
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.” (P.T. Barnum)
“The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.” (John Foster)
“Just pretending to be rich keeps some people poor.” (Anonymous)
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)
“Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.” (Stephen Covey)
“It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” (Roy Disney)
“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
(Albert Einstein)
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” (Thomas Paine)
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.” (Ayn Rand)
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Matthew 6:21)
“Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.” (Anonymous)
“It’s easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” (Alfred Adler)
Vengeance
“O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.” (Psalm 94:1)
“Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath of God: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord.”
(Romans 12: 19)
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance” (Winston Churchill)
“He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself.” (Chinese proverb)
“Where vice is vengeance follows.” (Scottish proverb)
“Live well. It is the greatest revenge.” (Talmud)
"Everyone is a potential murderer. I have not killed anyone - but I frequently get satisfaction out of obituary notices." (Clarence Darrow)
“Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.” (German Proverb)
“You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.” (Dick Armey)
“Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.” (George Bernard Shaw)
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” (Josh Billings)
“Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.” (Walter Weckler)
Victory
“Talent wins games. Teamwork wins championships.” (Michael Jordan)
“Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.” (Count Galeazzo Ciano)
“Winning is overemphasized. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.” (Al McGuire)
“To be vanquished and yet not surrender, that is victory.” (Josef Pilsudski)
“When you win, nothing hurts.” (Joe Namath)
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
(Martina Navrátilová)
Volunteering
“Never doubt that a a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” (Margaret Mead)
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do noting.” (Edmund Burke)
“One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t even have to make your subject and verb agree to serve . . .you only need a heart full of grace.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
“We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.” (Winston Churchill)
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” (Albert Schweitzer)
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“The miracle is this - - the more we share, the more we have.” (Leonard Nemoy)
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted.” (Aesop)
“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.” (Swedish proverb)
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” (Mark Twain)
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” (William James)
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” (Edward Everett Hale)
“In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.” (Karl Reiland)
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” (Horace Mann)
“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.” (Henry David Thoreau)
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.” (William James)
