CURATED COLLECTION

Choosing Your Values

The life you build will only be as meaningful as the principles you choose to build it on.

50 quotes found

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Truth is not what you see, but what you choose to believe, what you build.

—Pham Thi HoaiNovelist & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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Tradition is not a prison; it is a foundation upon which to build the future.

—Seydou Badian KouyatéPlaywright, Novelist & Politician

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life.

—John LennonMusician & Activist

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Language is the tool with which we build what we are.

—Rosario CastellanosPoet, Novelist & Diplomat

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

—EpictetusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Education is not just about knowledge, but about shaping character through Tongan values.

—Siosaia TaufaScholar

Digital Age ERA • Oceania

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Freedom is the possibility of choosing for oneself, even when choosing wrongly.

—Reinaldo ArenasNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

—Bob MarleyMusician

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness.

—George SandNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The secret of life is to have a task, something you bring your whole life to.

—George SandNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

—Bhagavad GitaAuthor & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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Language carries culture, and culture carries the values which make a people.

—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oNovelist, Playwright & Theorist

Late Modern ERA • East Africa

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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.

—George WashingtonPresident & General

Enlightenment ERA • North America

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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are.

—Aminata Sow FallNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfilment.

—Milan KunderaNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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If you want to know me, ask the weeds growing in my garden.

—RyokanPoet

Enlightenment ERA • East Asia

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Talent develops in solitude, character in the world's stream.

—Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWriter, Scientist & Statesman

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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Thou shalt have power to degenerate into the lower forms of life.

—Giovanni Pico della MirandolaPhilosopher

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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Language carries culture, and culture carries the entire body of values by which we perceive ourselves.

—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oNovelist, Playwright & Theorist

Late Modern ERA • East Africa

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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

—Nawal El SaadawiFeminist, Writer & Physician

Late Modern ERA • North Africa

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