Top 100 Quotes About Our Values
#1. But it's not enough to just "discover" the meaning of life. What really matters is whether we live according to our values, and that takes hard work and a hundred hard choices every day.
Greg M. Epstein
#2. We're fighting people that hates our values. They can't stand what America stands for.
George W. Bush
#3. When we know our values, we can easily measure whether or not our actions are in accordance with them. Values are the measuring sticks with which we determine the worthiness of our actions. To be better associated with one's own values is to remove a lot of the needless activities of daily life.
Chris Matakas
#4. Homo sentimentalis [ ... ] a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value, everyone wants to feel; and because we all like to pride ourselves on our values, we have a tendency to show off our feelings.
Milan Kundera
#5. If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.
Jan Koum
#6. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
George Carlin
#7. True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#8. Our values are determined by the environment we grow up in; and we learn to judge other people based on a standard that's set for us by the first person we come in contact with - which in most cases is our mother.
Kanae Minato
#10. Ultimately, work on self is inseperable from work in the world. Each mirrors the other; each is a vehicle for the other. When we change ourselves, our values and actions change as well. When we do work in the world, internal issues arise that we must face or be rendered ineffective.
Charles Eisenstein
#11. If our sense of self, our values and our ideals, do not originate from within - but are instead largely influenced, shaped or fashioned by celebrated characters - we fall under the spells of idol worship without realizing we have 'souled out'.
T.F. Hodge
#12. Relationships are most likely to fail when we don't address problems or hold our partner accountable for unfair or irresponsible behavior ... the ability to clarify our values, beliefs, and life goals
and then to keep our behavior congruent with them
is at the heart of a solid marriage.
Harriet Lerner
#13. From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
Tammy Bruce
#14. We reap in age what we have sown, in our values, all along the way.
Ram Dass
#15. America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.
Charles W. Pickering
#16. For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea ... we
Simon Sinek
#17. Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values, but making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.
Thomas R. Pickering
#18. I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st century, but I think that America can only do that if Americans can succeed. And there are lots of reasons why Americans today are feeling left out and left behind.
Hillary Clinton
#19. Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.
Barack Obama
#20. We should ... be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.
Richard Mitchell
#21. No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.
Maude Barlow
#22. When we start a new store, we make sure that we transfer enough starter culture from other stores that are already Whole Fooders, who've already incorporated our values and our culture within themselves into the ... into the store.
John Mackey
#23. We believe in the rights of every individual to seek his fortune, in respect for others and in tolerance. Let us reply to the terrorists by resolutely living our values and by redoubling those values across all of Europe - now more than ever.
Angela Merkel
#24. I'm very, very lucky in that I have a partner who is willing to do it with me in a really collaborative way. Fortunately, even though we couldn't stay in a romantic relationship, our values are very much around the importance of family and the importance of those relationships.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#25. Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.
Christine O'Donnell
#26. America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in
often distant places.
Jeb Bush
#27. Our values were under attacks, in Paris
Tell them:
We stand UNITED
We'll defend our values
We'll NOT be DIVIDED
Widad Akreyi
#28. If we disregard our values, we'll open our eyes one day and won't be able to recognize 'our world' anymore.
Frank Sonnenberg
#29. 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.
John O. Brennan
#30. Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.
Herman Van Rompuy
#31. The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.
Mario Diaz-Balart
#32. One of the purposes of the Olympic Games is to bring the nations of the world closer together, so that they can conduct an open dialogue. We [germans] should be careful about constantly imposing our values on others.
Herbert Hainer
#33. 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
#34. Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
Simon Sinek
#35. One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#36. Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.
Simon Sinek
#37. The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#38. Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
Bernard Beckett
#39. 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.
Isaiah Berlin
#40. An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#41. We could help the pulpit to understand that the miracle centered gospel is letting our values and culture down.
Sunday Adelaja
#42. Our value system must conform to His. Our actions must conform to our values.
L. Tom Perry
#43. Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
Julian Baggini
#44. We choose our own path. Our values and our actions, they define who we are.
L.J.Smith
#45. By making our defenseless planet the ultimate beneficiary of our economic activity, we align our values with a different set of motivations. When we begin to see life as an interdependent mesh, we place the survival of the human species on equal footing with our economic interests and ourselves.
Said Elias Dawlabani
#46. The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
Bill Crawford
#47. We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.
Raul Grijalva
#49. An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.
Hosni Mubarak
#50. We can support President Barack Obama, because he supports us. We can support Barack Obama, because he shares our values and our vision.
Richard Trumka
#51. The society that denies its poverty and injustice has lost a part of its freedom as well. If we deny our dissatisfaction, our anger, our pain, our ambition, we will suffer. If we deny our values, our beliefs, our longings, or our goodness, we will suffer.
Jack Kornfield
#52. If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.
Silvia Cartwright
#53. A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.
Barack Obama
#54. You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our values because we're afraid, we don't care about those values very much.
Edward Snowden
#55. I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.
John Kasich
#56. 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.
Gerald R. Ford
#57. We can't stop talking about the importance of our values and our culture. We can't stop talking about them because the moral well-being of our people is directly linked to their economic well-being.
Marco Rubio
#58. Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.
Ted Strickland
#59. Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Jan Peter Balkenende
#60. There are three ways in which we are honest. And those three ways will make up the bulk of this book. The three ways are 1) living based on our values (lifestyle); 2) becoming comfortable with our intentions (boldness); and 3) by expressing our sexuality freely (communication).
Mark Manson
#61. It is time that we as Christians recognize that it is our beliefs and our values and our way of life that are under attack.
David R. Mains
#62. They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.
M.F. Moonzajer
#63. If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#64. Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
Maya Angelou
#65. If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.
Ellen Tauscher
#66. The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
Nick Clooney
#67. So how, in an increasingly interconnected world, do we integrate and still keep our values?
Russell Shorto
#68. Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fight for our freedom, we don't have a sense of injustice.
Alan J. Pakula
#69. No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.
Terence McKenna
#70. The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.
Alain De Botton
#71. It's too low, and if Europe wants to be a force in the world it needs to be more than a moral and political and economic force, which Europe is because it shares many of our values and demonstrates them around the world. But it has to have the military power that goes with that as well.
Ashton Carter
#72. In our desire to achieve success quickly it is easy to get our values mixed up and call evil good and good evil.
Billy Graham
#73. Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.
Brene Brown
#74. I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English language which serves as the means by which we can communicate these values to those around us. Our common language, English, is that which unites us.
Asa Hutchinson
#75. Our values define who we're. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let's go beyond lip service to defend our values...
Assegid Habtewold
#76. How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.
Billy Graham
#77. What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
Adam Gopnik
#78. We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.
Angela Ahrendts
#79. We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.
Ronald Reagan
#80. We must insist on assimilation - immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work.
Bobby Jindal
#81. Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
Rick Perry
#82. Young people live exactly today ... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.
Walter Mosley
#83. Simple old-fashioned values that come from a sense of community are the key to a great society. I believe we all have that sense from childhood memories, when life was simple. It's those memories that should drive us to reflect on our values.
Lindsay Fox
#84. We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.
Michael Bloomberg
#85. 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.
Jane D. Hull
#86. I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.
Richard Dawkins
#87. I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
Naomi Scott
#88. The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
Jacob Lew
#89. Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.
John Foster Dulles
#90. Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland ... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.
Evan Bayh
#91. The problem with our society is that our values aren't in the right place. There's an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.
Bauvard
#92. Our values have led us where we are in life right now. We can't excel beyond the power behind our values that we have embraced...
Assegid Habtewold
#93. Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#94. We want to lead by our values and out interests in ways that, regardless of the trajectory over the next decade, people will know the United States was on the side of democracy, on the side of the rule of law.
Hillary Clinton
#95. [Alternative energy] will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that.
William J. Clinton
#96. We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#97. Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#98. Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.
Bill Shuster
#99. I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.
Rick Santorum
#100. I certainly think that the world views the United States as a place to be respected. All over the world our values are respected; who we are, a place that you can come and come from modest circumstances to great things, that's respected.
Condoleezza Rice
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