Values Quotes

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences.

You add value to people when you value them.

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values — is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.

But America isn't a country of family values; Mexico is a country of family values. This is a country of people who leave home.

What we value determines what we do.

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Cathleen Falsani: What is sin? Barack Obama: Being out of alignment with my values.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.

Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.

The first essential for economists ... is to ... combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values

Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

Knowledge is of more value than gold

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.