Values form the core of any individual. Application of these values results in development of ideas, formation of opinions and establishment of beliefs, influencing relationships with surroundings and one's kind. These values inspire an individual to be virtuous as well as to be imaginative and inventive in his or her approach, leading to advancement - http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/content.asp?contentid=610
Values come from a deep sense of what it is right to do. They have an attractive, uplifting, unrestrictive sense of the ideal. There is something compelling about the values that we hold, and yet it is entirely voluntary that we commit to these values. Value commitments arise from key intense experiences that we have and give life meaning and purpose. So there is a sense of voluntary compulsion about the values that we hold. You cannot decree a sense of purpose in life - Stephen Billing,http://www.changingorganisations.com/2009/05/corporate-values-exercises…
Values are the highest expression of our free will, and are intensely personal. They are an intense idealisation of an imaginative turn on how life would be if there were no restrictions. Efforts to work out a group or organisation?s values cut right across the imaginative and experiential nature of values. This is why I say that you cannot work out the organisation?s values through a rational process in a workshop - Stephen Billing,http://www.changingorganisations.com/2009/05/corporate-values-exercises…
Value pluralism (Isaiah Berlin) is linked to fallibility since there is no way to avoid conflict between different values and aspirations - George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered - p157
Try not to become a success, but rather try to become a man of value - Albert Einstein
Today's young people are searching for meaning and a community with human values, which an impersonal and technologically driven Europe cannot offer them - Valentine Iheanacho, letter to Time, 28/11/06
Throughout history, great wise people of all cultures have defined and proclaimed the fundamental values which should guide humans on this planet: love, truth, peace, happiness, kindness, understanding, altruism, service, cooperation, gratitude, etc. They derived their teachings from a deep understanding of the laws of the cosmos, from a mystical relation with the universe. Some considered themselves to be messengers or spokespeople of the universe or God. Today, these same values are being affirmed, defined, advocated, promoted and progressively implemented - Robert Muller
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others - Groucho Marx
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility - Benjamin Franklin
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself - Henry David Thoreau