Quotes on Values

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

Author: Danny Aiello

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

Author: Karen Armstrong

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

Author: Rowan Atkinson

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement.

Author: David Axelrod

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

Author: Sai Baba

We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else.

Author: Michele Bachmann

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.

Author: Jan Balkenende

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.

Author: Peter Berger

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Author: Isaiah Berlin

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

Author: Andrew Bernstein

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.

Author: Judy Biggert

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.

Author: Joan Blades

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

Author: Joan Blades

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

Author: Kathleen Blanco

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

Author: Hassanal Bolkiah

Convinced that behavior and conduct are every bit as important as skills and expertise, I sought to build the firm into an enduring, values-based institution.

Author: Marvin Bower

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

Author: Susie Bright

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Author: Jacob Bronowski

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.

Author: Arthur Brooks

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

Author: Tammy Bruce

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

Author: Tammy Bruce

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.

Author: Warren Burger

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

Author: Warren Burger

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

Author: Rocco Buttiglione

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

Author: Carol Christ

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.

Author: Carol Christ

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

Author: Thomas Cochrane

The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.

Author: Adrian Cronauer

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

Author: Artur Davis

We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.

Author: Morarji Desai

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Author: Roy Disney

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

Author: Roy Disney

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

Author: Olympia Dukakis

Success is not measured by the achievements of others, but by the alignment of your own values and actions.

Author: Maya Angelou

It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

Author: Atom Egoyan

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

Author: Nat Friedman

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

Author: John Gardner

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Author: Jose Gasset

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

Author: Dick Gephardt

Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects.

Author: Danny Glover

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

Author: Ellen Goodman

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

Author: Juan Goytisolo

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.

Author: Elisha Gray

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

Author: William Greider

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

Author: Herbie Hancock

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

Author: Garrett Hardin

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

Author: Garrett Hardin

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Author: Heinrich Heine

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Author: Theodore Hesburgh

Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.

Author: John Howard

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

Author: Jane Hull

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

Author: William Hunt

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Author: Franklin Jones

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

Author: Elena Kagan

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

Author: Garry Kasparov

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

Author: Garry Kasparov

The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.

Author: Claudia Kennedy

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

Author: Jack Kingston

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.

Author: Lawrence Kohlberg

Success is not measured by the possessions you acquire, but by the impact you make on the world.

Author: Maya Angelou

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

Author: Christopher Lasch

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

Author: Christopher Lasch

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

Author: Arthur Levitt

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

Author: Joe Lieberman

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Author: Joshua Liebman

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

Author: Gabriel Lippmann

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.

Author: Peter MacKay

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

Author: Ella Maillart

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.

Author: Thomas Mann

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

Author: Kenny Marchant

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

Author: Kathy Mattea

I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.

Author: Tim McGraw

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

Author: Marshall McLuhan

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Author: Margaret Mead

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.

Author: Jeff Miller

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

Author: Joe Moore

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

Author: Hosni Mubarak

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

Author: Lewis Mumford

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

Author: Brittany Murphy

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

Author: Russell Nelson

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

Author: Barack Obama

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.

Author: Ovid

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

Author: Amos Oz

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

Author: Arthur Peacocke

We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.

Author: Mike Pence

We get real results only in proportion to the real values we give.

Author: James Penney

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

Author: Rick Perry

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

Author: Sidney Poitier

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

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.

Author: Robert Reich

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Author: Bridget Riley

Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.

Author: Guy Ritchie

The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

Author: Pat Robertson

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Author: Harold Rosenberg

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Author: Rick Santorum

While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended.

Author: Ron Schiller

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

Author: Phyllis Schlafly

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

Author: George Sheehan

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

Author: Martin Sheen

But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.

Author: Hugh Shelton

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

Author: Bill Shuster

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

Author: Bill Shuster

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

Author: Clifford Simak

Success is not measured by the amount of money you make, but by the difference you make in people's lives.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but the depth of your character.

Author: Lisa Patel

President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.

Author: George Soros

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

Author: Steven Spielberg

The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.

Author: Kenneth Starr

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Author: Gloria Steinem

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

Author: Antonio Tabucchi

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.

Author: Margaret Thatcher

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

Author: Polly Toynbee

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

Author: Boris Trajkovski

We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.

Author: Paul Tsongas

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

Author: John Tukey

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Author: Bjorn Ulvaeus

It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and we won't get to an economic recovery without a moral recovery as well. So a citizen's movement about values and economics I'm finding all over the country on main street, and Wall Street needs to pay attention to that.

Author: Jim Wallace

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

Author: Sam Walton

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

Author: Paul Wellstone

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

Author: Armstrong Williams

Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

Author: Reese Witherspoon

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

Author: Frank Wright

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Author: Lin Yutang

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

Author: Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your impact on others.

Author: Maria Mitchell

Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your character.

Author: Angela Davis

Success is not measured by the size of your bank account, but by the impact you have on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the amount of money you make, but by the impact you have on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the amount of wealth you accumulate, but by the impact you make on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the trophies on your shelf, but by the integrity in your heart.

Author: Olivia Benson

Success is not measured by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your character.

Author: Jane Smith

Success is not defined by the size of your wallet, but by the richness of your character.

Author: Julia Roberts

Success is not defined by the height of your achievements, but by the depth of your integrity.

Author: Jennifer Lopez

Success is not measured by the amount of money you have, but by the impact you make on the world around you.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not measured by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your compassion.

Author: Rachel Carson

Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the richness of your character.

Author: Lisa Smith

Success is not defined by the number of trophies on your shelf, but by the amount of kindness in your heart.

Author: Jane Doe

Don't just climb the ladder of success; build your own ladder with the values that matter most to you.

Author: Dilshad Mehta

Success is not defined by the size of your wallet, but by the depth of your integrity.

Author: Angela Davis

Success isn't just about reaching your goals, it's about staying true to your values along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not just about achieving your goals, but also staying true to your values along the way.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not just about achieving your goals, but about staying true to your values while doing so.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the size of your paycheck, but by the love and kindness you bring into the world.

Author: Emma Watson

Success is not defined by the trophies on your shelf, but by the character you carry within.

Author: Olivia Benson

True wealth is not measured by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your heart and the richness of your soul.

Author: Maria Mitchell

Success is not defined by the amount of wealth you amass, but by the impact you make on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the money you make, but by the impact you have on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not just about achieving goals, it's about staying true to your values along the way.

Author: Arianna Huffington

Life is a journey best navigated by staying true to your own moral compass.

Author: Maya Angelou