All values are important.

Everyone
who has every touched your life in
some way is a mentor for good or
bad. Life is blend, and a person is a
blend of all the influences that have
touched his/her life”
“Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the
answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt.
Meaning is something you build into your life. You
build it out of your own past, out of your affections and
loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is
passed on to you, out of the talents and understanding,
out of the things you believe in, out of the this and
people you love, out of the values for which you are
willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are
there. You are the only one who can put them together
into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be
a life that has dignity and meaning for you.” (John
Gardner)
• Etymologically, value comes from the Latin
word “valere”, which means to be strong, to
be worth.
• Values are those standard by which a group
of society judges the desirability and
importance of person, ideas, action or objects
(Maciones, 1997) For example, the honesty
and integrity of a person, the nobility and
applicability of an idea, the fruitfulness and
productivity of an action, or the intrinsic
worth and usefulness of an object.
• Values are shared conceptions of on beliefs in what
are considered desirable or undesirable (Poponoc.
1974). For example, that God stands for good and
the devil for bad.
• Values are something deserving of one’s best effort,
something worth living for and, if need be, worth
dying for. For example, the late senator Benigno
Aquino jr stated before his death, “The Filipino is
worth dying for.”
• Values are principle or ideas in which groups and
individuals may believe strongly and which guide
their respective behaviors; Principles by which man
live for instance, the principles of equality, justice
and fair play.
• A value is an enduring conception of the
preferable which influences choice and
action. For example, success is preferred
over failure, honor over dishonor, and life
over death.
• Values are the ideas, customs,
institutions, etc. of a society toward
which the members of the group have an
effective regard. For example, the ideals
of freedom and democracy, the solidarity
of the family.
• Value refers to the utility of a thing, the
environmental conditions at the time of evaluation.
For example, a hungry and thirsty person stranded
on a hot desert would prefer food and water than all
the wealth in the world; person in the middle of the
pacific ocean would prefer a fifty-peso piece of
Styrofoam enough for him to float than a billion-
peso.
• Value is the quality of anything which renders it
desirable or useful. Worth implies intrinsic
exceilence or desirability; Food, water and air have
intrinsic values.