Values Quotes

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Pain los[es] its power when other things bec[o]me more important.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

Money is only a human invention.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.

Love means nothing if you can't accept someone for their core values.

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".

At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.

Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values.

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.

We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others

You've no future unless you add value, create projects.

Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.

Be transparent about company values and adhere to them as your company grows.

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.

Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.

I think I've done a pretty good job of not compartmentalizing my life. I take my core values and I live them out at home like I would in my snowboarding like I would at church with my friends.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Don't throw up your hands or abandon your values when you run into political difficulties. Stop, get a sense of the political terrain, and experiment with some ways to move cautiously forward.

I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

Our value is the sum of our values.

What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.

An ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values and love our people.

Our victory was a victory and a win for conservative values.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.