Values Quotes

Life is essentially a question of values.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms.

The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.

Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

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

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values.

One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' Those are my 'Star Wars.' They have values and traits about them that I wish I had.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it.

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

I will always support legislation which respects and values life.

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

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

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

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.

If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior.

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers.