Values Quotes

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

I believe that we do not share as many values with Russia yet as we do with the United States. On the other hand, we have a strong interest in Russia developing in a reasonable direction.

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of democracy and freedom.

A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.

We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind, with an attention not unlike that with which we distinguish ourselves.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

India and Fiji have many shared values, and it is the responsibility of both the countries to strengthen those values.

Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they’re very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

Values are good things only if they are good values.

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

And it is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families.

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

That which costs little is less valued.

You are worried that the religious Right might succeed in forcing their values onto us? I am worried they might fail.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the lathe of the past.

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

The real value in everything you do is in the details.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and faith in the hearts of their children.

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.

Homosexuals want their depraved 'values' to become our children's values. Homosexuals expect society to embrace their immoral way of life. Worse yet, they are looking for new recruits!

I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.

The value of a good education has never left me.

The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are: Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and Non violence.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values

Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely sets us apart, and I'm certain it's in a good way.

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction?

The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I always trust my parents. They have great values.

I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

My boyfriend isn't a rock star. His values are rock solid. We met at a dinner and he made me laugh.