Values Quotes

Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

Grace releases and affirms. It doesn't smother. Grace values the dignity of individuals. It doesn't destroy. Grace supports and encourages. It isn't jealous or suspicious.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

All sensible investing is value investing

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

The struggle I went through has value.

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death.

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.

Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.

You have to have confidence in what you're doing.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

The value we provide most to others is the same value we appreciate most from others.

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.

The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.

Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.