Human Values Quotes

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but positively dangerous.
—Sathya Sai Baba

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
—Sir Winston Churchill

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
—Kahlil Gibran

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
—John F. Kennedy

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Truth:

Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
—William Shakespeare

Truth never plays false roles of any kind, which is why people are so surprised when meeting it. Everyone must decide whether he wants the uncompromising truth or a counterfeit version of truth. Real wisdom consists of recommending the truth to yourself at every opportunity.
—Vernon Howard

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
—Leo Tolstoy

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
—Martin Luther King

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
—Arthur Schopenhauer

Right Conduct:

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way ... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
—Aristotle

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
— John Locke

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
—Albert Einstein

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also. —Thomas Jefferson

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
—Oliver Goldsmith

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can.
—John Wesley, founder of Methodism

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
—Henry Longfellow

Love:

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. —Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
—Iris Murdoch

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
—Alan Watts

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
—Mother Teresa

I consider now that my mind should be purer and that the moral standards of my actions should be higher, is it not so? And is this not one of the good effects of love?
—Henry Handel Richardson

Peace:

We certainly want peace, but we want peace with justice—a peace that shall afford to all persons in all countries to live full and happy lives.
—Dr. H.V. Evatt

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
—Thomas � Kempis

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
—Helen Keller

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
—Moshe Dayan

We all live with the objective of being happy. Our lives are different but exactly the same.
—Anne Frank

Non-Violence:

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. —Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
—Thomas Jefferson

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts. —Charles Dickens

How to live a life with Human Values

Watch your words,
Watch your actions,
Watch your thoughts,
Watch your character,
Watch your heart.
—Sathya Sai Baba

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