Top 100 Values Is Quotes
#1. I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
Steve Pavlina
#2. The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.
David Souter
#3. Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.
Robert M. Pirsig
#4. Yes, but I am not human and to expect me to live by your rules or values is unrealistic. For my kind, I am quite altruistic." Tyler Jones/Dhavenbahtek to Thulu and La Fi.
Maer Wilson
#5. I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.
Barack Obama
#7. 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.
Karl Jaspers
#8. While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
Kara Swisher
#9. You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.
Errol Morris
#10. Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.
Beverly LaHaye
#11. Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.
Deborah Day
#12. The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.
Millicent Fenwick
#13. As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.
H.P. Lovecraft
#14. The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression ...
May Sarton
#15. One of women's greatest values is compassion.
Safak Pavey
#16. critical pedagogy illuminates how classroom learning embodies selective values, is entangled with relations of power, entails judgments about what knowledge counts, legitimates specific social relations, defines agency in particular ways, and always presupposes a particular notion of the future.
Henry A. Giroux
#17. Man's sense of values is so degraded that he does not revere the Geetha, as much as he values and scans the pages of the daily newspaper. This is to be attributed to sheer ignorance and perversity, or pitiable fate.
Sathya Sai Baba
#18. The world is coloured rather than stained by such beliefs,and accepting another's values is far more Christian than falling to your knees every time you see a stained glass window.
Chris Harrison
#19. Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.
Therese Doucet
#20. If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world - is not in such a fortunate condition.
Murray Rothbard
#22. For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States - more than any other country.
Alain Juppe
#23. We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#24. The danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values is one that hardly troubles us.
Richard Hofstadter
#26. Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training.
Nido R. Qubein
#27. Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
Lance Loud
#28. Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded.
Dennis Prager
#29. The return to solid values is always hard ... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.
James A. Garfield
#30. Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.
Dalai Lama
#31. A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.
Robert M. Pirsig
#32. 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
#33. Not to embrace the kingdom values is not to be motivated
Sunday Adelaja
#34. Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.
Sathya Sai Baba
#35. Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.
Kenan Malik
#36. A Europe that qualifies its own values is not attractive in the eyes of Muslims. Europe must conduct itself as a strong partner, both intellectually and spiritually, and it must be convinced of its own advantages. This is the only way we will gain respect.
Walter Kasper
#37. It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.
Sathya Sai Baba
#38. This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#39. Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .
Max Weber
#40. A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.
Bassam Tibi
#41. The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached ... An apology for America's values is never the right course ... The statement that came from the administration was - was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a - a severe miscalculation.
Mitt Romney
#42. A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates
#43. To be mature you have to realize what you value most ... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#44. Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.
Rebecca West
#45. The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
Bill Crawford
#46. The problem with values is that everybody has them, but nobody has the same order.
Dan John
#47. The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
Alan Greenspan
#48. A shared vision driven by core values is a powerful alchemy.
Colleen Mariotti
#49. Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
Henry A. Kissinger
#50. Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
Edward De Bono
#51. An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
Garrett Hardin
#52. Their scepticism about values is on the surface: it is for use on other people's values; about the values current in their own set they are not nearly sceptical enough.
C.S. Lewis
#53. The apprehension of ... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of ... prolonged tuition.
Ben Shahn
#54. The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.
Seamus Heaney
#55. What he values is a task that, demanding of him all he has and is, absorbs and so releases him entirely.
Nan Shepherd
#56. To know values is to know the meaning of the market
Charles Dow
#57. Despite opinions to the contrary, restoring Godly values is the most progressive course of action that we could ever hope to take.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
Laura Schlessinger
#59. Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.
Michael Medved
#60. An apology for America's values is never the right course.
Mitt Romney
#61. 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
#62. The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.
David W. Orr
#63. 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.
Judy Biggert
#64. Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
Peter Singer
#65. 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
#66. The foundation of self-confidence, the basis of boldness and self-assertion, is a deep inner trust, based on living a life of perfect integrity, and disciplining yourself to live consistent with your highest values in every situation.
Brian Tracy
#67. The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values - something whose like has never been seen on earth
Fredrich Nietzsche
#68. Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result ... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.
Emanuel Lasker
#69. Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
Talib Kweli
#70. A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.
Andre Maurois
#71. By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that theartist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#72. Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect these inner values. But love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.
Dalai Lama
#73. The answer goes back to why God created us.He created us to be His loved ones,His family with whom He can share a relationship of mutual enjoyment. This shows the kind of God He is-a personal God who values loving relationships more than anything else in all the universe.
Ruth Myers
#74. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution. ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
Beth Buelow
#75. The second is that the American people tend to oppose whoever they see as the aggressor in the Culture Wars - whoever they see as trying to intrusively impose their values on other people and bullying everyone who disagrees.
Yuval Levin
#76. A religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values and rules with which to regulate a culture or society
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#77. Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.
Vann Chow
#78. The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values.
Angela Merkel
#79. The meaning of the world, said Wittgenstein, is outside the world. Events and values are distinguishable only in relation to others. A totality of events and values, the world itself, requires another.
Guy Davenport
#80. The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only pay attention to or place values on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language.
Paulo Freire
#81. I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my mind with ideas beyond the everyday. It is another borderland I inhabit. Not quite here nor there. On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone.
Sergio Troncoso
#82. Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.
Christopher Paolini
#83. The events of my birth...and finally of my death are not accomplished in me or for me. The affective weight of my life as a whole does not exist for me. Only the Other is in possession of the values of the being of a given person.
Mikhail Bakhtin
#84. The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
Bobby Orr
#85. When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.
Peter Hain
#86. The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it.
Jeffrey Loria
#87. Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.
Brene Brown
#88. Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
Brian Tracy
#89. War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. Joy is found when you focus your energy on improving human dignity, human capacity and human values.
Amit Ray
#91. I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
Ednita Nazario
#92. There's no such thing as values in Sharia law, that is what I was trying to explain, it's understood in thousands of different ways by tens of thousands of different institutions, who really disagree with each other far more than they disagree with people of other religions.
Mark Durie
#93. It is not wrong to think that the traditional buying of a product has been replaced with an unwritten contract of shared values between a business and its customers.
David Amerland
#94. My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
Helen Fisher
#95. Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#96. It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage.
Michael Josephson
#97. Living coherently doesn't mean everything is in perfect order all the time. It means you are living in alignment with your values and have not sacrificed your integrity along the way.
Bill Burnett
#98. Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages, all the while justifying them on the basis of collective values. pg. 199
Shamus Rahman Khan
#99. Ask yourself what it is that a code of moral values does to a man's life, and why he can't exist without it, and what happens to him if he accepts the wrong standard, by which the evil is the good.
Ayn Rand
#100. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
