Top 200 Values Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Quotes, Focus Quotes, Love Quotes

2. “A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Inner Peace Quotes

3. “Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Virtue Quotes, Self Control Quotes

4. “Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that action is service. Whatever form we are, able or disabled, rich or poor, it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing; a lifelong sharing of love with others.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Care Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes

5. “We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.”

— Desmond Tutu

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Compassion Quotes

6. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

— William Shakespeare

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7. “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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8. “If it is not right do not do it. If it is not true do not say it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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9. “Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

10. “Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Positive Motivational Quotes

11. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Meaningful Quotes, Effort Quotes

12. “Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Be Kind Quotes

13. “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

14. “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Winning Quotes

15. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

— Nelson Mandela

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16. “My religion is kindness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

17. “Leave it better than you found it.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Caring Quotes

18. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Live Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes

19. “Peace is our gift to each other.”

— Elie Wiesel

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Quality Quotes, Peace Quotes

20. “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Decision-Making Quotes, Wise Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions

21. “Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Interesting Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Live Life Quotes

22. “Because I always have a choice, I choose love.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Wellness Quotes

23. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

— W. Clement Stone

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Reflection Quotes, Choices Quotes

24. “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Time Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

25. “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

26. “Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

27. “Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Enlightenment Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Deep Quotes

28. “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Morality Quotes, Changing the World Quotes

29. “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

30. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

31. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Friendship Quotes

32. “The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Reputation Quotes, Honesty Quotes

33. “Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Be Kind Quotes, Morality Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

34. “He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Love You Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

35. “Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Sunday Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Intention Quotes

36. “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”

— Henry James

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Empathy Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Kindness Quotes

37. “We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes, Be Kind Quotes

38. “One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Care Quotes, Be Kind Quotes

39. “The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.”

— Pope Francis

Also featured in: Family Quotes, Blessed Family Quotes

40. “The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Acceptance Quotes

41. “Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Morality Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

42. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Love Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

43. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Work Quotes

44. “Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”

— Hal Borland

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Patience Quotes, Nature Quotes, Plant Quotes

45. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Famous Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

46. “Do your best and let God do the rest.”

— Ben Carson

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Christian Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Effort Quotes

47. “I cannot live without books.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Study Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

48. “Act without expectation.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

49. “The secret to living is giving.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

50. “If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Patience Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes