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“When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.”

“War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.”

Ifs Men War Values Lost Regret Return Oneself Appreciation Resilience Sensitive Delicacy

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“The most important decision I ever made in my career was to live my life in sports as honestly and ethically as possible. Never having compromised my values allows me to look back on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in what I was able to accomplish.”

Feels Looks Made Important Able Values Sports Decision Careers Regret Satisfaction Accomplish Honestly Living My Life No Regrets Important Decisions

Author:Greg LeMond

“for every person who's stepped out of line and lived to regret it, there are two people who stayed in line because they got their values mixed and lost their nerve, and who have lived to regret it still more. You don't hear about those people because they're still in line where they don't show.”

People Persons Stills Two Shows Values Lost Lines Risk Regret Nerves

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.”

Source: Human Society in Ethics and Politics

“We will, at some point, reflect back at our rampant acceptance of speciesism with profound regret. Our journey to understanding that all demonstrations of life possess equal value is a slow and harrowing one.”

Values Understanding Journey Acceptance Regret Equal Profound Demonstration Speciesism

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.”

Values Growth Mistake Regret Deeper Regret And Mistake

Author:Brooke Waggoner

“We know that global capitalism, and the commercially driven culture that comes with it, can be a powerful solvent, but many of us who benefit from it economically can regret the effect it has on our own lives as well as on the lives of others, and we should not view ourselves as helpless in the face of an irresistible force, especially since we may very well be complicit. We should be prepared to help others or to leave them be to sustain their cultures if we judge that they are of intrinsic value or of value to their members.”

Helping Values Culture Powerful Judging Regret Capitalism Driven Helping Others Helpless Be Prepared Irresistible Lives Of Others

Author:David Wong

“One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.”

Lying Values Regret One Day

Book:House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4

Source: House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4

“If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.”

Ifs Reason Past Values Regret No Reason

Author:James A. Owen

“Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.”

Years Age Values Too Much Planets Regret Fearless Frightened Great Value Takeaways

Author:Diane Keaton

“She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.”

“I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another”

Knows Long Philosophy Values Principles Regret Approach Long Time Fundamentals Embrace Investment Abandon Investors Fundamental Principles

Author:Seth Klarman