Quotes About Core Values

#1. Any minority's right to be different must be respected, but the right of the majority must not be questioned. Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity.

Vladimir Putin

#2. When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.

Charles Duhigg

#3. Great companies first build a culture of discipline . . . and create a business model that fits squarely in the intersection of three circles: what they can be best in the world at, a deep understanding of their economic engine, and the core values they hold with deep passion.

Isadore Sharp

#4. By 'consumer society', I mean one in which commodities are increasingly used to express the core values of that society but also become the principal form through which people come to see, recognise and understand those values.

Daniel Miller

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

Simon Mainwaring

#6. 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.

John McCain

#7. The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.

Philip Yancey

#8. The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

Rick Perry

#9. People did not change their basic, core personalities. Their values tended to stay the same.

Karin Slaughter

#10. You have to have core values. What do you believe in? Do you believe in hard work? Do you believe in discipline? Do you believe in conditioning? Because those are the things I know that do work.

Tom Thibodeau

#11. He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

Terry Pratchett

#12. It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

Bob Ainsworth

#13. In most important ways, this world is explicitly antibureaucratic: that is, it evinces an explicit rejection of virtually all the core values of bureaucracy.

David Graeber

#14. Like a wolf, she lived by instinct.

Nikki Rowe

#15. The single most important takeaway from Stage Four is that Tribal Leaders follow the core values of the tribe no matter what the cost.

Dave Logan

#16. In the social business marketplace, brands that hope to build loyal and growing communities do so most effectively when they demonstrate their core values and allow a community to build and engage around it.

Simon Mainwaring

#17. In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

Lorin Maazel

#18. The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.

Bell Hooks

#19. We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.

Joe Lieberman

#20. I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

Norbert Leo Butz

#21. A Princess of the Shield is courageous. She is compassionate. She is kind, and she is disciplined. Without these four core values, a girl may have all the crowns and castles she wants, but she will no more be a princess than she will a dragon.

M.A. Larson

#22. The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

Edward Kennedy

#23. In leading People, take a page from parenting: Establish a handful of rules, repeat yourself a lot, and act consistently with those rules. This is the role and power of Core Values. If discovered and used effectively, these values guide all the relationship decisions and systems in the company.

Verne Harnish

#24. The less affluent must be able, at least in theory, to catch up with the more affluent. Hence politics remains without substance, a realm from which the crucial dimensions of life, the core values, are excluded.42 Who, then, can criticize this situation?

Morris Berman

#25. This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

Shmuley Boteach

#26. Only by digging deep down to the core of our true self can we come to a place of inner certainty. Our underlying values and priorities are our personal navigational stars on life's journey - essential tools to chart a life course that embraces what matters most to us.

Marian Deegan

#27. I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

Darrell Hammond

#28. Discipline yourself so that all expectations, and inspiration, begin with your core values before relying on someone else's to better your life.

Steven Cuoco

#29. Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

Barack Obama

#30. It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively without participants embracing a set of core spiritual values.

Wangari Maathai

#31. 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.

Simon Mainwaring

#32. A clear sense of purpose aligned with your goals and core values directs your attention to extraordinary opportunities.

Julie Connor

#33. I bring to the table core Democratic values and can articulate them very strongly. I'm not someone who tries to claim the middle.

Cynthia Dill

#34. This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

Kenny Marchant

#35. I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

Mack McLarty

#36. 'Million Dollar Arm' touches on many of the Safe At Home Foundation's core values, such as children, teamwork and family.

Joe Torre

#37. Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

James C. Collins

#38. You need to maximize your Gods given potential through the power of your spirit, your inner core, your values and principles on which your life is based

Sunday Adelaja

#39. Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone

Hillary Clinton

#40. Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.

Lapo Elkann

#41. Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans.

Herb Kohl

#42. In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

Carol Bellamy

#43. My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

John Spence

#44. I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.

Widad Akreyi

#45. The really tough choices ... don't center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values.

Rushworth Kidder

#46. Mind control aims to change a person to the very core by altering their decisions, perception, beliefs, values, behaviors and relationships.

Jeffery Dawson

#47. We find out who they are by asking them why they made decisions in their life. The answers to these questions give us insight into their core values.33

James C. Collins

#48. Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#49. You can't market yourself as a brand without defining your core values and characteristics that are distinguishable and unique to you.

Daniela Bachelder

#50. It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years.

Gus O'Donnell

#51. The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

Ben Carson

#52. I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.

Tiger Woods

#53. True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart.

Farshad Asl

#54. Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.

Jonathan Haidt

#55. People who live a life of purpose have core beliefs and values that influence their decisions, shape their day-to-day actions, and determine their short- and long-term priorities.

Frank Sonnenberg

#56. People have lost what this nation was built on. I think our core values have been set aside ... I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.

Diane Hendricks

#57. The core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed

Jonathon Porritt

#58. RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions ... Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for our country's future by staying true to core values and never retreating.

Sarah Palin

#59. Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

John C. Maxwell

#60. That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

Robert Winston

#61. Love is not compromising your core values for someone else's. Love brings up your Highest Self.

Cloris Kylie

#62. It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

#63. [G]reat stories communicate simple truths that reflect the poetic dimensions of the human soul. Not only do powerful characters help us understand our lives, their stories reflect our core values as human beings.

Kate Wright

#64. One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

Janelle Monae

#65. It is important to build inner core, form beliefs and life values

Sunday Adelaja

#66. 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.

Simon Mainwaring

#67. Life is good when you live from your roots. Your values are a critical source of energy, enthusiasm, and direction. Work is meaningful and fun when it's an expression of your true core.

Shoshana Zuboff

#68. To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

Maya Harris

#69. Have a set of core values you must follow while living your life. It should be your Personal Constitution.

Sanchita Pandey

#70. I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

Cory Booker

#71. If a brand genuinely wants to make a social contribution, it should start with who they are, not what they do. For only when a brand has defined itself and its core values can it identify causes or social responsibility initiatives that are in alignment with its authentic brand story.

Simon Mainwaring

#72. A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity ... one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#73. We have our core values as a family, and we've kept them, that's our number one priority is making sure our kids know that so they also will have the same values, no matter what circumstances come your way.

Missy Robertson

#74. Honour your core sexual values and express them directly

Miya Yamanouchi

#75. Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

Karen Salmansohn

#76. You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy that sometimes you've got to take bites out of the apple instead of the whole apple.

Jason T. Smith

#77. Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#78. I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core of that character values morals, honor and things like that. You want to inspire them to look beyond what is superficial and try to find that greater thing.

Hilarie Burton

#79. The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

Mark Emmert

#80. I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values - and not just the stated ones.

Tony Hsieh

#81. No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

Bruce Springsteen

#82. Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice.

Noah Feldman

#83. 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.

Kelly Clark

#84. I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

Wynton Marsalis

#85. An attitude is much deeper than just our emotions or the thoughts we think. It's a decision we make based on our core beliefs and values.

Toni Sorenson

#86. Your core values affect your day to day behavior and effectiveness as a leader.

Mark G. Miller

#87. A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

John Sununu

#88. Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional marriage, which foster common goals.

Bill O'Reilly

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

Colin Powell

#90. My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

DJ Shadow

#91. A core value is something you're willing to get punished for.

Patrick Lencioni

#92. Your goals and the tasks you choose to accomplish your goals either align with dream and core values or they don't. It's that simple.

Julie Connor

#93. We must put behind us the tribalism and divisions seen in the referendum between Leave and Remain and focus on defining our place in the world, healing our wonderful nation and putting core Conservative principles and values into action.

Priti Patel

#94. Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

Andrew Stanton

#95. Just be yourself and stay true to your core values.

Ben Quayle

#96. I think my core values are all about family and just at the end of the day, coming home and knowing that I'm happy being the person that I am - and that doesn't come without struggles, but to me success is just being able to go home and feel like you connected with somebody.

Hayley Williams

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

Katie Chapman

#98. A shared vision driven by core values is a powerful alchemy.

Colleen Mariotti

#99. Core values serve as a lighthouse when the fog of life seems to leave you wandering in circles; when you encounter that moment where every decision is a tough one and no choice seems to clearly be the better choice.

J. Loren Norris

#100. Societies that value excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and integrity do well. If we want India to be rich, we have to value excellence and honesty first. This is where a reset, a re-prioritization of something very core to society is required. This core is our values.

Chetan Bhagat