Values

Your beliefs become your thoughts.
Your thoughts become your words.
Your words become your actions.
Your actions become your habits.
Your habits become your values.
Your values become your destiny.

―Mahatma Gandhi

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Character is what you do when no one is looking.

―John Wooden

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

―Alexander Pope

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It is who I am. That’s how I played the game… If you don’t want to play that way, don’t play that way.

Michael Jordan

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No wind serves them who address their voyage to no certain port.

—Michel de Montaigne

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who come alive.

—Howard Thurman

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Nobody’s free
until everybody’s free.

—Fannie Lou Hamer

Parable of the boy throwing starfish back into the sea

Feelings · Needs · Values

Wants, needs, values: Where they overlap

Big list of values

Values-based action

Living into our values

Values self-exploration

Values clarification

Exploring values

Values discussion questions

Values discussion cards

Poem: Soybeans

Life story

James Baldwon: ‘Love has never been a popular movement’

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What values do you hold dear?
Why these values?
How are you currently embodying these values?
How might you like to embody these values even more?