Values Quotes

It is not order only, but unexpected order, that has value.

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

Life and values do run in cycles.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

I am glad that Angela Merkel is the German Chancellor, as she tries to combine a sense of responsibility with morality and values. Because this is the essence of Europe.

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

I like Brazilians and I like their values. They believe in family.

Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities.

My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

Remember this: Beliefs divide, values unite. When we go to the values that underlie so many religious beliefs, they unite us.

The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

We're at a period where our society is at the end of a cycle, where all the sudden the values that we were told were important don't seem to have that much importance nowadays.

The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it.

Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.

It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.

Art is an end in itself; its values are intrinsic.

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .

It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.