Values Quotes

I learned to value the small transactions as well as the large.

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".

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.

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

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

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.

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

The longer it takes to explain value, the more people think you don't have any.

Values-oriented foreign policy of the free world would be much better, supported by the self-awareness of being on the right side of history.

A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

I never would like to be a country that is that multicultural that, for instance, the Islamic values become more dominant. We should not do that. We should stop that.

When you experience having nothing you value everything - and that applies to all aspects of life.

I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.

Where do we get our values from?

What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life.

He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

The demographics are changing - and so what? Citizenship is a question of certain agreed-upon values and that is that. Do we believe that? I think at heart we do.

I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.

We're fighting people that hates our values, they can't stand what America stands for.

I suspect people are going to vote for Max Burns because they know him as local boy who's got - share their values.

Values matters well in a race.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

In chess there is a world of intellectual values.

Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been a byword for top physical prowess and spectacular athletic performance.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world.

Take new values: Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.

Where there is Dharma there is no karma. So we have to lean on Dharmic values and we have to build a Dharmic family, we have to relate to that family and we have to relate to it deeply.

If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

History is only a value of relation.

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy and justice.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

You're only as good as your values.

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.