Personal Values Quotes

“We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.”
― James E. Faust

“Self-discipline means you have the determination, inner strength, and fortitude to do what’s right — even if it’s difficult.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“At times you can lose yourself in your journey to find out who you are, and that's ok because a journey is not a set road. It was built to be unpredictable. The person you were will not always be who you end up as. Nevertheless, it does not mean that who you were at the beginning, or all of who you were in the middle, or who you are at the end is any less valuable than each other.”
― Isabella Poretsis

“Help others find their way, their own values, and guide them through life’s ups and downs.”
― Hyrum W. Smith, The 3 Gaps: Are You Making a Difference?

“How do you define a life of high personal worth and lasting success?”
― Seema Brain Openers

“A sense of identity slowly but surely evolves when we experiment in the hub of life by consciously and unconsciously responding to the never-ending changes in our external world and as we develop our physical, emotional, and rational being. Periods of solitude assist a person identify the stealthy traits that a person surreptitiously acquired. Reflecting upon our personal experiences helps us comprehend the patterns of our nature that emerged, signs reveling what principles we most profoundly believe and what ethical obligations we value. Articulating a personal code of conduct acquaints a person with the single core of unity that formed in his or her subterranean mind, the persona that took shape while we immersed ourselves in the dark stream of self-identification.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“A popular misconception is that decision analysis is unemotional, dehumanizing, and obsessive because it uses numbers and arithmetic in order to guide important life decisions. Isn’t this turning over important human decisions “to a machine,” sometimes literally a computer — which now picks our quarterbacks, our chief executive officers, and even our lovers? Aren’t the “mathematicizers” of life, who admittedly have done well in the basic sciences, moving into a context where such uses of numbers are irrelevant and irreverent? Don’t we suffer enough from the tyranny of numbers when our opportunities in life are controlled by numerical scores on aptitude tests and numbers entered on rating forms by interviewers and supervisors? In short, isn’t the human spirit better expressed by intuitive choices than by analytic number crunching?

Our answer to all these concerns is an unqualified “no.” There is absolutely nothing in the von Neumann and Morgenstern theory — or in this book — that requires the adoption of “inhumanly” stable or easily accessed values. In fact, the whole idea of utility is that it provides a measure of what is truly personally important to individuals reaching decisions. As presented here, the aim of analyzing expected utility is to help us achieve what is really important to us. As James March (1978) points out, one goal in life may be to discover what our values are. That goal might require action that is playful, or even arbitrary. Does such action violate the dictates of either rationality or expected utility theory? No. Upon examination, an individual valuing such an approach will be found to have a utility associated with the existential experimentation that follows from it. All that the decision analyst does is help to make this value explicit so that the individual can understand it and incorporate it into action in a noncontradictory manner.”
― Reid Hastie, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making

“The only value that truly matters is the one you give yourself. - The Mother of All Values”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“If you think that doing the right thing most of the time makes you reliable, you’re kidding yourself.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“Society creates societal values and mores for all to follow, at least in public; most however, deviate from these values and do so privately.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 2019

“Writing our eulogy can be a wake-up call to prioritize what truly matters.”
― Sam Izad, Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas

“If there were no Constitution, I believed, human beings would still have a right to marry whom they want. We would still have the right to see our biological offspring, the right to speech, and the right to practice a religion.”
― Joe Biden, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

“If beauty catches the eye, then character captures the heart.”
― Mr Abd Faek Ghananeem, Stories For Kids: The Lost Treasure of the Desert: An Adventurous Quest for Hidden Wonders Ages 7-12